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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 hyphenfile

       --catcfg
	      output the content of the config file

       --disablefmt formatname
	      disable formatname in config file

       --edit no-op in TeX Live

       --enablefmt formatname
	      ensable 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

SEE ALSO

       kpsewhich(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)

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