fmtutil(1) - Linux man page
Name
fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format filesfmtutil-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
- --byfmt formatname
- (re)create the format for format formatname
- --byhyphen hyphenfile
- (re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile
- --help
- print a summary of commands and options
- --missing
- create any missing format files
- --showhyphen formatname
- print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname
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
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.