fmtutil(8) TeXLive fmtutil(8)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
--byfmt formatname
(re)create the format for format formatname
--byhyphen hyphenfile
(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphen‐
file
--help print a summary of commands and options
--missing
create any missing format files
--showhyphen formatname
print the name of the hyphenation file for the format formatname
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)
--quiet
(not implemented, just for compatibility)
--test (not implemented, just for compatibility)
FILES
fmtutil.cnf
default configuration file
SEE ALSOkpsewhich(1)
Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>
BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-live@tug.org> (mailing
list).
AUTHORfmtutil was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> and is
Copyright 1998 Thomas Esser.
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.
TeXLive February 2005 fmtutil(8)