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fmtutil-sys

utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide


see also : kpsewhich - update-fmtutil

Synopsis

fmtutil [OPTION...] COMMAND

fmtutil-sys [OPTION...] COMMAND


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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


bugs

None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-k[:at:]tug[:dot:]org> (mailing list).


see also

kpsewhich , update-fmtutil


author

fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser <te[:at:]dbs[:dot:]uni-hannover.de> and is in the public domain.

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

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