fmtutil(1) teTeX fmtutil(1)
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
--missing
create any missing format files
--refresh
recreate only existing format files
--byfmt formatname
(re)create the format for format formatname
--byhyphen hyphenfile
(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphen
file
--enablefmt formatname
enable formatname in config file
--disablefmt formatname
disable formatname in config file
--listcfg
list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to avail
able formats
--catcfg
output the content of the config file
--showhyphen formatname
print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname
--edit edit fmtutil.cnf file (disabled in Debian)
--version
show version info
--help print a summary of commands and options
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)
Web page:
BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to
(mailing list).
AUTHOR
fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser and is
Copyright 1998 Thomas Esser.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly , for the
Debian GNU/Linux system and later slightly adapted for the teTeX 3
release.
teTeX February 2005 fmtutil(1)