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FMTUTIL(1) TeX Live 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:

recreate all format files
(re)create formats that depend on the engine enginename
(re)create the format for format formatname
(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile
output the content of the config file
disable formatname in config file
no-op in TeX Live
ensable formatname in config file
print a summary of commands and options
list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to available formats
create all missing format files
recreate only existing format files
print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname
show version info

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)
don't use engine-specific subdir of the fmtdir
exit successfully if no format is selected
be silent
(not implemented, just for compatibility)

FILES

default configuration file

SEE ALSO

kpsewhich(1)

BUGS

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

AUTHOR

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.

June 2011 TeX Live