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
              enable 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

       /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
              Debian-specific directory for configuration file snippets

SEE ALSO

       kpsewhich(1), update-fmtutil(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.