texconfig
Section: TeX Live (1)
Updated: July 2014
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NAME
texconfig - configures teTeX or TeX Live
texconfig-sys - configures teTeX or TeX Live system-wide
SYNOPSIS
texconfig
texconfig
[ commands ...]
texconfig-sys
DESCRIPTION
texconfig
allows one to configure and maintain TeX in an easy and convenient
manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to the user. The directory in
which
texconfig is found is also preferentially used to find
subprograms.
The
tlmgr
program has subsumed this function for TeX Live. This program
is still supported, but the tlmgr interface is much more actively
developed and tested.
After choosing settings or options, the appropriate files
are changed automatically and the new settings are applied for the
user. If needed, copies of files in
TEXMFDIST
or
TEXMFMAIN
will be made in the user's
TEXMFCONFIG
tree.
texconfig
uses either the
whiptail(1)
or
dialog(1)
program to communicate with the user, so must be run in a terminal.
For making system-wide changes, which will apply to all users of TeX
(for example, default paper size and so on), run
texconfig-sys
instead. Changed or generated files will be placed in
TEXMFSYSCONFIG.
(You may need to be root to do this.)
texconfig
also offers a non-interactive batch mode which can be accessed with
the following commands
COMMANDS
Commands that accept further options usually display available options
if called without them. For example,
texconfig dvipdfm paper
will inform about valid paper settings.
- conf
-
Display the system configuration.
- dvipdfm paper [letter|legal|ledger|tabloid|a4|a3]
-
Set up dvipdfm to use papersize PAPER by default.
- dvips add PRINTERNAME
-
Create a new (empty) configuration file
TEXMFCONFIG/dvips/config/config.PRINTERNAME.
This file can later be filled with the
mode, offset
or
printcmd
options
- dvips del PRINTERNAME
-
Remove
config.PRINTERNAME
- dvips mode
-
List available Metafont modes.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] mode MODE
-
Change the Metafont mode to
MODE
for
PRINTER
or for all output files
(config.ps),
if no
-P
option is given.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] offset x-OFFSET,y-OFFSET
-
Set printer offset for
PRINTER
or for all output files
(config.ps),
if no
-P
option is given. Offsets must be given with units, e.g.
0pt,10pt
You can use testpage.tex from the LaTeX distribution to find these
numbers.
- dvips [-P PRINTER] printcmd CMD
-
Set the printing command for
PRINTER
or for all output files
(config.ps),
if no
-P
option is given. Commands might be
lp
or
lpr.
See the description of the
o
option in
info dvips
or the
-O
option in
dvips(1).
- faq
-
Display the list of Frequently Asked Questions about
teTeX
(and their answers).
- font vardir DIR, font ro, font rw
-
- formats
-
This command allows to edit
fmtutil.cnf(5)
and (re)creates any new or changed formats afterwards.
- hyphen FORMAT
-
This command allows to edit the hyphenation configuration file for
formats that support this, and recreates the formats afterwards to
enable the new languages. Available formats are shown when no
FORMAT
is given.
-
Note that for formats that use LaTeX's
language.dat,
e.g.
(pdf)jadetex
and
latex
itself, this change is not persistent, since this file is a generated
file. You should not use this command in these cases, read
update-language(1)
for alternatives.
- init [format]
-
Recreate
format
or all formats if none is given, and the font information. This is
the same as calling
fmtutil --byfmt format
or
fmtutil --all,
respectively, followed by
updmap.
- mode-list
-
List available printer modes, together with the printers they were
developed for, and their DPI resolution
- mode MODE
-
Set the default printer mode in
/etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
or the respective user file in
$TEXMFCONFIG/web2c
to
MODE.
- paper [a4|letter]
-
Set the default papersize for
dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex
and
xdvi.
The set is restricted because not all programs understand all sizes.
- pdftex paper [a4|letter]
-
Set the default paper size for
pdftex.
- rehash
-
Call
mktexlsr.
- xdvi paper PAPER
-
Set the default paper size for
xdvi.
The (long) list is available with
texconfig xdvi paper.
ENVIRONMENT
To let you change files,
texconfig
will open the editor specified in the VISUAL or EDITOR variables, or
sensible-editor
if both are unset.
SEE ALSO
whiptail(1),
dialog(1),
tlmgr(1),
tex(1),
mf(1),
vi(1),
EDITOR
environment variable.
AUTHOR
Thomas Esser