NAME¶
fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files
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
- --catcfg
- output the content of the config file
- --disablefmt formatname
- disable formatname in config file
- --edit
- no-op in TeX Live
- --enablefmt formatname
- enable formatname in config file
- --help
- print a summary of commands and options
- --listcfg
- list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to available
formats
- --missing
- create all missing format files
- --refresh
- recreate only existing format files
- --showhyphen formatname
- print the name of the hyphenation file for the format
formatname
- --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)
- --no-engine-subdir
- don't use engine-specific subdir of the fmtdir
- --no-error-if-no-format
- exit successfully if no format is selected
- --quiet
- be silent
- --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 <tex-k@tug.org> (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.
