1fmtutil.cnf(5) TeXLive fmtutil.cnf(5)
2
3
4
6 fmtutil.cnf - configuration file for fmtutil
7
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).
14
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.
21
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 (``-´´).
27
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).
31
32 etex(1) loads language.def, not language.dat.
33
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‐
37 config(8).
38
40 fmtutil.cnf
41 default configuration file
42
43 language.dat
44 hyphenation pattern file
45
46 language.def
47 hyphenation pattern file
48
50 amstex(1), etex(1), fmtutil(8), tex(1), texconfig(8), texlinks(8).
51
52 Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>
53
55 None known, but report any bugs found to <tex-live@tug.org> (mailing
56 list).
57
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.
61
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).
67
68
69
70TeXLive October 2000 fmtutil.cnf(5)