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 is used by  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 and complete lines can be commented out  with  ``#´´.   The  ``pattern
       file´´  field  cannot  be used to define a file that is used while building the format.  It tells fmtutil
       which files (separated by commas) the format creation procedure reads and it has an effect to the options
       --showhyphen and --byhyphen.  If the format has no way to customize hyphenation, a ``-´´ can be  used  to
       indicate this.

NOTES

       The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats always load hyphen.tex.  No customization by a pattern file is available
       for  these  formats.  Therefore, the pattern-file field for the tex and amstex is usually indicated to be
       empty (``-´´).

       You can, however, build customized formats on top of  plain  tex(1)  or  amstex(1)  by  using  bplain.tex
       instead  of  plain.tex  (b  for  the  Babel system). 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 -> tex) are  generated  by  the  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

       language.dat.lua
              hyphenation pattern file

SEE ALSO

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

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

BUGS

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

AUTHOR

       fmtutil.cnf was written by Thomas  Esser  <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>,  and  is  Copyright  1998,  1999  but
       released into the public domain.

       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                                             October 2000                                    fmtutil.cnf(5)