fmtutil-sys - utility for maintaining TeX format files system-wide

fmtutil [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

fmtutil-sys [ OPTION... ] COMMAND

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

--byfmt formatname

(re)create the format for format formatname

--byhyphen hyphenfile

(re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphenfile

--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

--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)

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

kpsewhich(1)

Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>

None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-live@tug.org> (mailing list).

fmtutil 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.