FMTUTIL

Section: TeX Live (1)
Updated: June 2011
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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
--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

--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)

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

None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-k@tug.org> (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.