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. 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.)
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.html/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.
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.
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), tex(1), mf(1), vi(1), EDITOR environment
variable.
AUTHOR
Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>