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fmtutil

Section: TeX Live (8)
Updated: August 2009
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NAME

fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files

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

fmtutil [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

fmtutil-sys [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

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

--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)

fmtutil.cnf: default configuration file
/etc/texmf/fmt.d/: Debian-specific directory for configuration file snippets

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

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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