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.)

       Note that on a Debian system, changes to formats, font setup, hyphenation for different  languages,  etc.
       should  not be done with texconfig, because fmtutil.cnf(5), updmap.cfg(5), texmf.cnf and language.dat are
       generated files in Debian.  See TeX-on-Debian.pdf, TeX-on-Debian.txt.gz or  TeX-on-Debian.html/index.html
       in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/ for alternatives.

       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
              These options should not be used on a Debian system unless you really know  what  you  are  doing.
              For details, look at the output of texconfig fonts and read section 2.5, font caching, in the TeX-
              on-Debian documentation in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/.

       formats
              This  command allows to edit fmtutil.cnf(5) and (re)creates any new or changed formats afterwards.
              It should not be used on Debian systems, unless you want to temporarily create and test a specific
              format, because fmtutil.cnf(5) is a generated file in Debian, and  changes  will  be  overwritten.
              See update-fmtutil for details.

       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)