Bug#396826: tex-common: Please make section 2.4 of TeX-on-Debian more precise about user settings

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> +         <sect1 id="sec-user-config-files">
> +          <heading>
> +	    Per user configuration changes
> +          </heading>
> +	  <p>
> +	    To override entries in the system wide configuration file 
> +	    <file>texmf.cnf</file>, a user only needs to add lines to 
> +	    <tt><var>HOME</var>/.texmf-config/web2c/texmf.cnf</tt>.
> +	    Please only add those lines which are absolutely necessary.
> +	  </p>
> +
> +	  <p>
> +	    In contrast to the above &mdash; TeX reading and merging all
> +	    <file>texmf.cnf</file> files &mdash; the <em>first</em> found occurrence of
> +	    one of the files <file>updmap.cfg</file>, <file>language.dat</file>,
> +	    <file>fmtutil.cnf</file> are used. Thus, the other

I'd rather read this in the context, and in html instead of sgml-diff,
but I think this could be improved.  It looks like it's mixing up two
issues: The general (non-Debian-specific) fact that TeX programs read
more than one texmf.cnf but only one updmap.cfg, fmtutil.cnf and
language.dat, and the way users can utilize the Debian-specific update-*
programs.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)