NAME
texconfig - configures teTeX
texconfig-sys - configures teTeX system-wide
SYNOPSIS
texconfig
texconfig
[ commands ...]
texconfig-sys
DESCRIPTION
texconfig
allows one to configure and maintain
teTeX
in an easy and convenient manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to
the user. 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
R whiptail (1)
or
R 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
teTeX
(for example, default paper size and so on), run
texconfig-sys
instead. Changed or generated files will be placed in
TEXMFSYSCONFIG.
(You may need ot be root to do this.)
Note that on a Debian system, changes to formats, font setup,
hyphenation for different languages, etc. should not be done with
texconfig, because
fmtutil.cnf(5), updmap.cfg(5), texmf.cnf
and
language.dat
are generated files in Debian. See
TeX-on-Debian.pdf, TeX-on-Debian.txt.gz
or
TeX-on-Debian.hmlt/index.html
in
/usr/share/doc/tex-common/
for alternatives.
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. Note that some of the files listed
as configuration files are generated files on a Debian system.
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 ro
These options should not be used on a Debian system unless you really
know what you are doing. For details, look at the output of
texconfig fonts
and read section 2.5, font caching, in the TeX-on-Debian documentation
in
/usr/share/doc/tex-common/.
formats
This command allows to edit
fmtutil.cnf(5)
and (re)creates any new or changed formats afterwards. It should not
be used on Debian systems, unless you want to temporarily create and
test a specific format, because
fmtutil.cnf(5)
is a generated file in Debian, and changes will be overwritten. See
update-fmtutil
for details.
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.
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
R whiptail (1),
R dialog (1),
R tex (1),
R mf (1),
R vi (1),
R EDITOR
environment variable.
AUTHOR
Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
