texconfig(1)							     TeX Live							      texconfig(1)

NAME

       texconfig - configures teTeX or TeX Live

       texconfig-sys - configures teTeX or TeX Live system-wide

SYNOPSIS

       texconfig

       texconfig [ commands ...]

       texconfig-sys

DESCRIPTION

       texconfig allows one to configure and maintain TeX in an easy and convenient manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to the user.

       The  tlmgr program has subsumed this function for TeX Live.  This program is still supported, but the tlmgr interface is much more actively
       developed and tested.

       After choosing settings or options, the appropriate files are changed automatically and the new settings are  applied  for  the	user.	If
       needed, copies of files in TEXMFDIST or TEXMFMAIN will be made in the user's TEXMFCONFIG tree.

       texconfig uses either the whiptail(1) or dialog(1) program to communicate with the user, so must be run in a terminal.

       For  making  system-wide  changes,  which  will	apply  to  all users of TeX (for example, default paper size and so on), run texconfig-sys
       instead.  Changed or generated files will be placed in TEXMFSYSCONFIG.  (You may need to be root to do this.)

       texconfig also offers a non-interactive batch mode which can be accessed with the following commands

COMMANDS

       Commands that accept further options usually display available options if called without them.  For example, texconfig dvipdfm  paper  will
       inform about valid paper settings.

       conf   Display the system configuration.

       dvipdfm paper [letter|legal|ledger|tabloid|a4|a3]
	      Set up dvipdfm to use papersize PAPER by default.

       dvips add PRINTERNAME
	      Create  a  new (empty) configuration file TEXMFCONFIG/dvips/config/config.PRINTERNAME.  This file can later be filled with the mode,
	      offset or printcmd options

       dvips del PRINTERNAME
	      Remove config.PRINTERNAME

       dvips mode
	      List available MetaFont modes.

       dvips [-P PRINTER] mode MODE
	      Change the MetaFont mode to MODE for PRINTER or for all output files (config.ps), if no -P option is given.

       dvips [-P PRINTER] offset x-OFFSET,y-OFFSET
	      Set printer offset for PRINTER or for all output files (config.ps), if no -P option is given.  Offsets must  be  given  with  units,
	      e.g.  0pt,10pt You can use testpage.tex from the LaTeX distribution to find these numbers.

       dvips [-P PRINTER] printcmd CMD
	      Set  the	printing  command for PRINTER or for all output files (config.ps), if no -P option is given.  Commands might be lp or lpr.
	      See the description of the o option in info dvips or the -O option in dvips(1).

       faq    Display the list of Frequently Asked Questions about teTeX (and their answers).

       font vardir DIR, font ro, font rw

       formats
	      This command allows to edit fmtutil.cnf(5) and (re)creates any new or changed formats afterwards.

       hyphen FORMAT
	      This command allows to edit the hyphenation configuration file for formats that support this, and recreates the  formats	afterwards
	      to enable the new languages.  Available formats are shown when no FORMAT is given.

	      Note that for formats that use LaTeX's language.dat,
	       e.g.   (pdf)jadetex  and latex itself, this change is not persistent, since this file is a generated file.  You should not use this
	      command in these cases, read update-language(1) for alternatives.

       init [format]
	      Recreate format or all formats if none is given, and the font information.  This is the same as calling fmtutil  --byfmt	format	or
	      fmtutil --all, respectively, followed by updmap.

       mode-list
	      List available printer modes, together with the printers they were developed for, and their DPI resolution

       mode MODE
	      Set the default printer mode in /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf or the respective user file in $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c to MODE.

       paper [a4|letter]
	      Set the default papersize for dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex and xdvi.  The set is restricted because not all programs understand all sizes.

       pdftex paper [a4|letter]
	      Set the default paper size for pdftex.

       rehash Call mktexlsr.

       xdvi paper PAPER
	      Set the default paper size for xdvi.  The (long) list is available with texconfig xdvi paper.

ENVIRONMENT

       To let you change files, texconfig will open the editor specified in the VISUAL or EDITOR variables, or sensible-editor if both are unset.

SEE ALSO

       whiptail(1), dialog(1), tlmgr(1), tex(1), mf(1), vi(1), EDITOR environment variable.

AUTHOR

       Thomas Esser

TeX Live							    August 2011 						      texconfig(1)