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NAME
dh_installtex - register Type 1 fonts, hyphenation patterns, or formats
with TeX

SYNOPSIS
dh_installtex [debhelper options] [-n] [--flavor=flavor[,flavor]]
[map=MixedMap,file.map] [map=Map,file.map] [map=KanjiMap,file.map]
[mapfile=file.cfg] [hyphen=lang,file[,lhm=n][,rhm=n][,synonym=syn,...]]
[hyphenfile=file.cnf] [format=format,engine,hyphenfile,rest args]
[formatfile=file.cnf]

DESCRIPTION
dh_installtex is a debhelper program that is responsible for updating
the ls-R databases, registering map files, new formats, and new
hyphenation patterns with TeX.

Your package should depend on an appropriate version of tex-common so
that the update-* commands are available. (This program adds that
dependency to ${misc:Depends}.)

WARNING This program does not check for the actual existence of any
input files in TEXMF trees. If you call it without any further
specification on which packages to work on (using "-p" or "-N") it will
add calls to management functions to all packages. In this case don't
forget to add ${misc:Depends} to all packages' dependencies.

SIMPLE USAGE: Registering Files
If you only install files into /usr/share/texmf, nothing has to be done,
tex-common will automatically detect changes and run mktexlsr.

COMPLEX USAGE: Registering fonts, hyphenation patterns and formats
If in addition, you have to install map files, hyphenation patterns for
additional languages, or format definitions you can use three different
methods to specify what should be installed:

1) Pre made config files: These files can be specified with the
different typefile= options. type can be one of map, format and hyphen,
and these files will be installed into /var/lib/tex-common/configdir/
for the respective type (fontmap-cfg for map files, hyphen-cnf for
hyphenation patterns, and fmtutil-cnf for format definitions).

Example:

dh_installtex mapfile=foo.cfg formatfile=debian/bar.cnf

would install foo.cfg as /var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texmf/foo.cfg,
and debian/bar.cnf as /var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/texmf/bar.cnf.

2) Directly on the cmd line: You can specify maps, formats, and
hyphenations on the cmd line. The items are stored in the respective
config file 20package

Example:

dh_installtex map=Map,foo.map hyphen=ngerman-x-2011-07-01,dehyphn-x-2011-07-01.tex,hyph-de-1996.pat.txt,lhm=2,rhm=2,synonym=ngerman-x-latest,exceptions=hyph-de-1996.hyp.txt

would install a file /var/lib/tex-common/fontmap-cfg/texmf/package.cfg
containing the line

Map foo.map

and a file /var/lib/tex-common/hyphen-cnf/texmf/package.cnf containing
the lines

name=ngerman-x-2011-07-01 file=dehyphn-x-2011-07-01.tex file_patterns=hyph-de-1996.pat.txt lefthyphenmin=2 righthyphenmin=2 synonym=ngerman-x-latest file_exceptions=hyph-de-1996.hyp.txt

3) Package files: You create a file debian/package.maps or debian/maps,
debian/package.hyphens or debian/hyphens, debian/package.formats or
debian/formats. These files are installed with the name of the package.
Each of these files will be installed into the first package
dh_installtex is told to act on. By default this is the first binary
package in debian/control, but if you use -p, -i, or -a flags, it will
be the first package specified by those flags.

Example:

dh_installtex

would install a present debian/package.formats file as
/var/lib/tex-common/fmtutil-cnf/texmf/package.cnf.

Mixing the different variants
The command line items (Variant 2) are merged into the
debian/package.maps (debian/package.hyphens, debian/package.formats)
file. If you specify an additional package.cfg/cnf (Variant 1) this will
raise an error since both files would be installed as package.cfg/cnf.

OPTIONS
-n, --noscripts
Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.

--flavor=flavor[,flavor]
This option is used to select a different tree then the default
/usr/share/texmf, and to switch on additional options. The argument
specify a list from flavors to be selected. At the moment you can
select from the following list of flavors: tree:texlive,
map:config_for_active_maps, map:config_for_all_maps,
format:add_one:formatname.

tree:texlive will select the tree /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist and
should only be used for files installed into this tree.

map:config_for_active_maps will create a file config.bar for each
active (i.e. uncommented) map in each of the cfg file generated by
one of the three methods described above. These files are installed
in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/.

If you select map:config_for_all_maps the script will generate
config.bar even for those map files which are present in a cfg file,
but deactivated by a comment.

The file config.bar is used when called by `dvips -Pbar ...'. Thus
it allows the activation of single map files even if they are not
automatically activated via the updmap(-sys) mechanism.

Default is not to generate any config files.

format:add_one:formatname allows one to add the generation of a
specific format without actually providing it (in a cnf file). This
is useful if a package adds hyphenation patterns to an existing
formats.

format:no_links: Usually, for every format that is specified in a
configuration file, dh_installtex will create a symlink
/usr/bin/format that points to the corresponding engine. For
example, /usr/bin/latex would be created as a symlink to pdftex.

The flavor format:no_links inhibits this. If a link already exists,
dh_installtex will skip this format with an informational message,
even if this option is not given.

NOTES
"dh_installtex" adds a dependency relation onto tex-common to
misc:Depends.

Note that this command is not idempotent. "dh_clean -k" should be called
between invocations of this command, unless using the -n option.
Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be added
to maintainer scripts.

Please refer to the Debian TeX policy for details about fonts
configuration for TeX by Debian packages.