Re: Font packages for TeX

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> if which mktexlsr >/dev/null; then mktexlsr; fi
> if which updmap-sys >/dev/null; then
>     printf "Running updmap-sys... "
>     updmap-sys --quiet
>     echo "done."
> fi
>
> BTW, why 'printf' instead of 'echo -n'?

>From debiab/changelog:

  * Replace "echo -n" by "printf" in /bin/sh scripts, as "echo -n" is not
    specified by POSIX.

Of course, 'echo -n' is still safe for a long time, given the number of
scripts that use it. But I think using printf here is slightly better.

-- 
Florent