fmtutil.cnf(5) File Formats Manual fmtutil.cnf(5) 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, lan- guage.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 (sep- arated 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 ams- tex(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 fmtu- til(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). <https://tug.org/texlive/scripts-sys-user.html> BUGS Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (public mailing list). AUTHOR fmtutil and fmtutil.cnf was originally written by Thomas Esser. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux sys- tem. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live. TeX Live 10 February 2025 fmtutil.cnf(5)
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