fmtutil

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

–byfmt formatname
    (re)create the format for format formatname

–byhyphen hyphenfile
    (re)create formats that depend on the hyphenation file hyphen?
    file

–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 format 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 generated 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

Web page: http://tug.org/

Author
fmtutil was written by Thomas Esser and is
Copyright 1998 Thomas Esser.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly , for the
Debian GNU/Linux system and later slightly adapted for the teTeX 3
release.