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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´´, ``luatex´´), the name of the engine that is used by that  format
       (e.g., ``tex´´, ``pdftex´´, ``luatex´´), the pattern file (e.g., language.dat, language.dat.lua), and any
       arguments (e.g., tex.ini).

       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 on the options
       --showhyphen  and --byhyphen.  If the format has no way to customize hyphenation, ``-´´ should be used to
       indicate this.

       Running "fmtutil --help" will output the main documentation for using fmtutil.cnf.

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).

AUTHOR

       fmtutil.cnf was originally written by Thomas Esser and released as public domain.  It  is  maintained  as
       part of TeX Live: <http://tug.org/texlive/>.

       This manual page was originally written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system.  It may be used
       by other distributions without contacting the author.