NAME¶
texconfig - configures teTeX or TeX Live
texconfig-sys - configures teTeX or TeX Live system-wide
SYNOPSIS¶
texconfig
texconfig [
commands ...]
texconfig-sys
DESCRIPTION¶
texconfig allows one to configure and maintain TeX in an easy and
convenient manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to the user.
The
tlmgr program has subsumed this function for TeX Live. This program
is still supported, but the tlmgr interface is much more actively developed
and tested.
After choosing settings or options, the appropriate files are changed
automatically and the new settings are applied for the user. If needed, copies
of files in
TEXMFDIST or
TEXMFMAIN will be made in the user's
TEXMFCONFIG tree.
texconfig uses either the
whiptail(1) or
dialog(1) program
to communicate with the user, so must be run in a terminal.
For making system-wide changes, which will apply to all users of TeX (for
example, default paper size and so on), run
texconfig-sys instead.
Changed or generated files will be placed in
TEXMFSYSCONFIG. (You may
need to be root to do this.)
Note that on a Debian system, changes to formats, font setup, hyphenation for
different languages, etc. should not be done with texconfig, because
fmtutil.cnf(5), updmap.cfg(5), texmf.cnf and
language.dat are
generated files in Debian. See
TeX-on-Debian.pdf, TeX-on-Debian.txt.gz
or
TeX-on-Debian.html/index.html in
/usr/share/doc/tex-common/
for alternatives.
texconfig also offers a non-interactive batch mode which can be accessed
with the following commands
COMMANDS¶
Commands that accept further options usually display available options if called
without them. For example,
texconfig dvipdfm paper will inform about
valid paper settings.
- conf
- Display the system configuration.
- dvipdfm paper [letter|legal|ledger|tabloid|a4|a3]
- Set up dvipdfm to use papersize PAPER by default.
- dvips add PRINTERNAME
- Create a new (empty) configuration file
TEXMFCONFIG/dvips/config/config.PRINTERNAME. This file can later be
filled with the mode, offset or printcmd options
- dvips del PRINTERNAME
- Remove config.PRINTERNAME
- dvips mode
- List available MetaFont modes.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] mode MODE
- Change the MetaFont mode to MODE for PRINTER or for all
output files (config.ps), if no -P option is given.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] offset x-OFFSET,y-OFFSET
- Set printer offset for PRINTER or for all output files
(config.ps), if no -P option is given. Offsets must be given
with units, e.g. 0pt,10pt You can use testpage.tex from the LaTeX
distribution to find these numbers.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] printcmd CMD
- Set the printing command for PRINTER or for all output files
(config.ps), if no -P option is given. Commands might be
lp or lpr. See the description of the o option in
info dvips or the -O option in dvips(1).
- faq
- Display the list of Frequently Asked Questions about teTeX (and
their answers).
- font vardir DIR, font ro, font rw
- These options should not be used on a Debian system unless you really know
what you are doing. For details, look at the output of texconfig
fonts and read section 2.5, font caching, in the TeX-on-Debian
documentation in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/.
- formats
- This command allows to edit fmtutil.cnf(5) and (re)creates any new
or changed formats afterwards. It should not be used on Debian systems,
unless you want to temporarily create and test a specific format, because
fmtutil.cnf(5) is a generated file in Debian, and changes will be
overwritten. See update-fmtutil for details.
- hyphen FORMAT
- This command allows to edit the hyphenation configuration file for formats
that support this, and recreates the formats afterwards to enable the new
languages. Available formats are shown when no FORMAT is
given.
- Note that for formats that use LaTeX's language.dat,
e.g. (pdf)jadetex and latex itself, this change is not
persistent, since this file is a generated file. You should not use this
command in these cases, read update-language(1) for
alternatives.
- init [format]
- Recreate format or all formats if none is given, and the font
information. This is the same as calling fmtutil --byfmt format or
fmtutil --all, respectively, followed by updmap.
- mode-list
- List available printer modes, together with the printers they were
developed for, and their DPI resolution
- mode MODE
- Set the default printer mode in /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf or the
respective user file in $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c to MODE.
- paper [a4|letter]
- Set the default papersize for dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex and
xdvi. The set is restricted because not all programs understand all
sizes.
- pdftex paper [a4|letter]
- Set the default paper size for pdftex.
- rehash
- Call mktexlsr.
- xdvi paper PAPER
- Set the default paper size for xdvi. The (long) list is available
with texconfig xdvi paper.
ENVIRONMENT¶
To let you change files,
texconfig will open the editor specified in the
VISUAL or EDITOR variables, or
sensible-editor if both are unset.
SEE ALSO¶
whiptail(1),
dialog(1),
tlmgr(1),
tex(1),
mf(1),
vi(1),
EDITOR environment variable.
AUTHOR¶
Thomas Esser