texconfig-sys

       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 con-
       venient manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to  the  user.  After
       choosing  settings  or options, the appropriate files are changed auto-
       matically 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  communi-
       cate 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,  hyphen-
       ation  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/con-
              fig/config.PRINTERNAME.   This file can later be filled with the
              mode, offset or printcmd options

       dvips del PRINTERNAME
              Remove config.PRINTERNAME


       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 after-
              wards 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 persis-
              tent, since this file is a generated file.  You should  not  use
              this  command in these cases, read update-language(1) for alter-
              natives.

       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.

       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  vari-
       able.

AUTHOR
       Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>



TeX Live                           May 2009                       texconfig(1)