fmtutil(l)                    teTeX                    fmtutil(l)



NAME
       fmtutil - utility for maintaining TeX format files


SYNOPSIS
       fmtutil [ OPTION... ]  COMMAND


DESCRIPTION
       fmtutil  is  used to create or recreate format and hyphen-
       ation 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 for-
              mat 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 gen-
              erated 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 ALSO
       kpsewhich(h)

       Web page: <http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/>


BUGS
       None  known,  but  report  any bugs found to <tetex@infor-
       matik.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).


AUTHOR
       fmtutil was written by  Thomas  Esser  <te@informatik.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.   It  may
       be  used  by  other  distributions  without contacting the
       author.  Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page  are
       my  fault;  inquiries  about or corrections to this manual
       page should be directed to me  (and  not  to  the  primary
       author).



teTeX                      August 2000                 fmtutil(l)