## NAME

fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files

fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide

## SYNOPSIS

fmtutil

COMMAND

fmtutil-sys

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

--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 hyphenfile

--catcfg output the content of the config file

--disablefmt \ formatname disable formatname in config file

--edit no-op in TeX Live

--enablefmt \ formatname enable formatname in config file

--help print a summary of commands and options

--listcfg list (enabled and disabled) configurations, filtered to available 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

\fI/etc/texmf/fmt.d/\fP

Debian-specific directory for configuration file snippets

## SEE ALSO

kpsewhich (1)update-fmtutil(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.