fmtutil

NAME

fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide

SYNOPSIS

fmtutil [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

fmtutil-sys [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

fmtutil is used to create or recreate format and hyphenation files or show information about format files.

COMMAND is one of:

--all

recreate all format files

--byengine enginename

(re)create formats that depend on the engine enginename

--byfmt formatname

(re)create the format for format formatname

--byhyphen hyphenfile

(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile

--help

print a summary of commands and options

--missing

create any missing format files

--refresh

recreate only existing format files

--showhyphen formatname

print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname

--enablefmt formatname

enable formatname in config file

--disablefmt formatname

disable formatname in config file

--listcfg

list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to available formats

--catcfg

output the content of the config file

--edit

edit fmtutil.cnf file (disabled in Debian)

--version

show version info

OPTIONS

--cnffile file

specify the configuration file fmtutil should use

--dolinks

(not implemented, just for compatibility)

--fmtdir directory

set the destination directory for format files generated by fmtutil to directory

--force

(not implemented, just for compatibility)

--quiet

(not implemented, just for compatibility)

--test

(not implemented, just for compatibility)

FILES

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

/etc/texmf/fmt.d/

Debian-specific directory for configuration file snippets

SEE ALSO

kpsewhich(1), update-fmtutil(1)

BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).

AUTHOR

fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> and is in the public domain.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system and later slightly adapted for the teTeX 3 release.

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