fmtutil.cnf(5) teTeX fmtutil.cnf(5)NAMEfmtutil.cnf - configuration file for fmtutil
DESCRIPTION
The fmtutil.cnf file contains the configuration informa-
tion for fmtutil(8). Each line contains the name of the
format (e.g., ``tex'', ``latex'', ``omega''), the name of
the engine that uses that format (e.g., ``tex'', ``etex'',
``omega''), the pattern file (e.g., language.dat, lan-
guage.def), and any arguments (name of an .ini file).
Fields are separated by whitespace. A ``-'' can be used
to indicate an empty field (only used in practice for the
pattern-file field for the tex and amstex formats, which
cannot be customized in this way.). Line can be commented
out with ``#''.
NOTES
The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats load hyphen.tex. No cus-
tomization is available for these formats.
You can, however, build customized formats on top of plain
tex(1) or amstex(1) by using bplain.tex instead of
plain.tex (see, for example, the bplain.ini file for the
bplain format).
etex(1) loads language.def, not language.dat.
Symbolic links to the correct engines (e.g., bplain ->
tex) are generated by the texlinks(8) script. Remember
to run texlinks(8) if you run fmtutil(8) yourself, rather
than using the FORMATS option in texconfig(8).
FILESfmtutil.cnf
default configuration file
language.dat
hyphenation pattern file
language.def
hyphenation pattern file
SEE ALSOamstex(1), etex(1), fmtutil(8), tex(1), texconfig(8),
texlinks(8).
Web page: <http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/>
BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-
hannover.de> (mailing list).
AUTHORfmtutil.cnf was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-han-
nover.de>, and is Copyright 1998, 1999 but released into
the public domain.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly
<c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may
be used by other distributions without contacting the
author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are
my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual
page should be directed to me (and not to the primary
author).
teTeX October 2000 fmtutil.cnf(5)