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NAME

6       fmtutil.cnf - configuration file for fmtutil
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  fmtutil.cnf  file contains the configuration information for fmtu‐
10       til(8).  Each line contains the name  of  the  format  (e.g.,  ``tex´´,
11       ``latex´´, ``omega´´), the name of the engine that is used by that for‐
12       mat (e.g., ``tex´´, ``etex´´, ``omega´´), the pattern file (e.g.,  lan‐
13       guage.dat, language.def), and any arguments (name of an .ini file).
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15       Fields  are separated by whitespace and complete lines can be commented
16       out with ``#´´.  The ``pattern file´´ field cannot be used to define  a
17       file  that  is  used while building the format.  It tells fmtutil which
18       file the format creation procedure reads and it has an  effect  to  the
19       options  --showhyphen and --byhyphen.  If the format has no way to cus‐
20       tomize hyphenation, a ``-´´ can be used to indicate this.
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NOTES

23       The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats always load hyphen.tex.  No customiza‐
24       tion  by  a pattern file is available for these formats. Therefore, the
25       pattern-file field for the tex and amstex is usually  indicated  to  be
26       empty (``-´´).
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28       You  can,  however,  build customized formats on top of plain tex(1) or
29       amstex(1) by using bplain.tex instead of plain.tex  (b  for  the  Babel
30       system). See, for example, the bplain.ini file for the bplain format).
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32       etex(1) loads language.def, not language.dat.
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34       Symbolic  links to the correct engines (e.g., bplain -> tex) are gener‐
35       ated by the texlinks(8) script.   Remember to run  texlinks(8)  if  you
36       run  fmtutil(8)  yourself, rather than using the FORMATS option in tex‐
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FILES

40       fmtutil.cnf
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43       language.dat
44              hyphenation pattern file
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46       language.def
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SEE ALSO

50       amstex(1), etex(1), fmtutil(8), tex(1), texconfig(8), texlinks(8).
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52       Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>
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BUGS

55       None known, but report any bugs  found  to  <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
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AUTHOR

59       fmtutil.cnf  was  written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>, and
60       is Copyright 1998, 1999 but released into the public domain.
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62       This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>,  for  the
63       Debian GNU/Linux system.  It may be used by other distributions without
64       contacting the author.  Any mistakes or omissions in  the  manual  page
65       are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should
66       be directed to me (and not to the primary author).
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