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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'', ``omega''), the name of the engine that uses that format (e.g., ``tex'', ``etex'', ``omega''), the pattern file (e.g., language.dat, language.def), and any arguments (name of an .ini file).

Fields are separated by whitespace. A ``-'' can be used to indicate an empty field (only used in practice for the pattern-file field for the tex and amstex formats, which cannot be customized in this way.). Line can be commented out with ``#''.

## Notes

The tex(1) and amstex(1) formats load hyphen.tex. No customization is available for these formats.

You can, however, build customized formats on top of plain tex(1) or amstex(1) by using bplain.tex instead of plain.tex (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

## See Also

amstex(1) , etex(1) , fmtutil(8) , tex(1) , texconfig(8) , texlinks(8) .

Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/ >

## Bugs

None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).

## Author

fmtutil.cnf was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>, and is Copyright 1998, 1999 but released into the public domain.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

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