fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files
fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide
fmtutil
COMMAND
fmtutil-sys
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
--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)
fmtutil\&.cnf default configuration file
Debian-specific directory for configuration file snippets
kpsewhich (1)update-fmtutil(1)
None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-k@tug.org> (mailing list).
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.