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fmtutil(8) TeXLive fmtutil(8)

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:

recreate all format files
(re)create the format for format formatname
(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile
print a summary of commands and options
create any missing format files
print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname

OPTIONS

specify the configuration file fmtutil should use
(not implemented, just for compatibility)
set the destination directory for format files generated by fmtutil to directory
(not implemented, just for compatibility)
(not implemented, just for compatibility)
(not implemented, just for compatibility)

FILES

default configuration file

SEE ALSO

kpsewhich(1)

Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>

BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-live@tug.org> (mailing list).

AUTHOR

fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> and is Copyright 1998 Thomas Esser.

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.

February 2005 TeXLive