FMTUTIL(1) TeX Live FMTUTIL(1)NAMEfmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files
fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide
SYNOPSISfmtutil [OPTION...] COMMAND
fmtutil-sys [OPTION...] COMMAND
DESCRIPTIONfmtutil 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 hyphen‐
file
--catcfg
output the content of the config file
--disablefmt formatname
disable formatname in config file
--edit no-op in TeX Live
--enablefmt formatname
ensable formatname in config file
--help print a summary of commands and options
--listcfg
list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to avail‐
able 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
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)
--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)
FILES
fmtutil.cnf
default configuration file
SEE ALSOkpsewhich(1)BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-k@tug.org> (mailing
list).
AUTHORfmtutil 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.
TeX Live June 2011 FMTUTIL(1)