fmtutil.cnf

fmtutil.cnf

NAME DESCRIPTION NOTES FILES SEE ALSO BUGS AUTHOR

NAME

fmtutil.cnf - configuration file for fmtutil

DESCRIPTION

The fmtutil.cnf file contains the configuration information for fmtutil(8). Each line contains the name of the format (e.g., ``tex, ``latex, ``omega), the name of the engine that uses that format (e.g., ``tex, ``etex, ``omega), the pattern file (e.g., language.dat, language.def), and any arguments (name of an .ini file).

Fields are separated by whitespace. A ``- can be used to indicate an empty field (only used in practice for the pattern-file field for the tex and amstex formats, which cannot be customized in this way.). Line can be commented out with ``#.

NOTES

The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats load hyphen.tex. No customization is available for these formats.

You can, however, build customized formats on top of plain tex(1) or amstex(1) by using bplain.tex instead of plain.tex (see, for example, the bplain.ini file for the bplain format).

etex(1) loads language.def, not language.dat.

Symbolic links to the correct engines (e.g., bplain - texlinks__(8)? script. Remember to run texlinks(8) if you run fmtutil(8) yourself, rather than using the FORMATS option in texconfig(8)?.

FILES

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

language.dat

hyphenation pattern file

language.def

hyphenation pattern file

SEE ALSO

amstex(1), etex(1), fmtutil(8), tex(1), texconfig(8)?, texlinks(8).

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BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to

AUTHOR

fmtutil.cnf was written by Thomas Esser ''

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly