1 .TH texconfig 1 "July 2014" "TeX Live" "TeX Live"
3 texconfig \- configures teTeX or TeX Live
5 texconfig-sys \- configures teTeX or TeX Live system\-wide
15 allows one to configure and maintain TeX in an easy and convenient
16 manner, offering a series of dialog boxes to the user. The directory in
17 which \fItexconfig\fP is found is also preferentially used to find
22 program has subsumed this function for TeX Live. This program
23 is still supported, but the tlmgr interface is much more actively
26 After choosing settings or options, the appropriate files
27 are changed automatically and the new settings are applied for the
28 user. If needed, copies of files in
32 will be made in the user's
41 program to communicate with the user, so must be run in a terminal.
43 For making system-wide changes, which will apply to all users of TeX
44 (for example, default paper size and so on), run
46 instead. Changed or generated files will be placed in
48 (You may need to be root to do this.)
51 also offers a non-interactive batch mode which can be accessed with
52 the following commands
54 Commands that accept further options usually display available options
55 if called without them. For example,
56 .B texconfig dvipdfm paper
57 will inform about valid paper settings.
61 Display the system configuration.
64 .B dvipdfm paper [letter|legal|ledger|tabloid|a4|a3]
65 Set up dvipdfm to use papersize PAPER by default.
67 .B dvips add PRINTERNAME
68 Create a new (empty) configuration file
69 .I TEXMFCONFIG/dvips/config/config.PRINTERNAME.
70 This file can later be filled with the
76 .B dvips del PRINTERNAME
81 List available Metafont modes.
83 .B dvips [-P PRINTER] mode MODE
84 Change the Metafont mode to
88 or for all output files
94 .B dvips [-P PRINTER] offset x-OFFSET,y-OFFSET
95 Set printer offset for
97 or for all output files
101 option is given. Offsets must be given with units, e.g.
103 You can use testpage.tex from the LaTeX distribution to find these
106 .B dvips [-P PRINTER] printcmd CMD
107 Set the printing command for
109 or for all output files
113 option is given. Commands might be
117 See the description of the
127 Display the list of Frequently Asked Questions about
131 .B font vardir DIR, font ro, font rw
134 This command allows to edit
136 and (re)creates any new or changed formats afterwards.
139 This command allows to edit the hyphenation configuration file for
140 formats that support this, and recreates the formats afterwards to
141 enable the new languages. Available formats are shown when no
145 Note that for formats that use LaTeX's
151 itself, this change is not persistent, since this file is a generated
152 file. You should not use this command in these cases, read
153 .B update-language(1)
159 or all formats if none is given, and the font information. This is
161 .B fmtutil --byfmt format
164 respectively, followed by
168 List available printer modes, together with the printers they were
169 developed for, and their DPI resolution
172 Set the default printer mode in
173 .I /etc/texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf
174 or the respective user file in
175 .I $TEXMFCONFIG/web2c
180 Set the default papersize for
181 .B dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex
184 The set is restricted because not all programs understand all sizes.
186 .B pdftex paper [a4|letter]
187 Set the default paper size for
195 Set the default paper size for
197 The (long) list is available with
198 .B texconfig xdvi paper.
201 To let you change files,
203 will open the editor specified in the VISUAL or EDITOR variables, or
214 environment variable.