fmtutil8

Usage

Overview

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 hyphenfile

--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