FMTUTIL(1)                         TeX Live                         FMTUTIL(1)



NAME
       fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files

       fmtutil-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

       --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
              enable 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

       /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
              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.



TeX Live                           June 2011                        FMTUTIL(1)
