# $Id$ # Originally written by Thomas Esser, 1998. Public domain. # # For guidance on how to support local formats, see the man # page of fmtutil, or the output of fmtutil --help. # # any manual edits of this file (fmtutil.cnf in the TEXMFDIST tree) will # be lost on update. So don't do that. # # The format of the table is: # # format engine pattern-file arguments # Either spaces or tabs can be used as separators. # # The last "argument" must be the name of the file on which to run the # engine (e.g., initex). If the ini-engine is e-TeX (or compatible), and # the e-TeX extensions need to be enabled explicitly, the filename must # be prefixed with a * character; this is essentially equivalent to the # -etex option. (So don't use it if the engine doesn't support -etex.) # # The purpose of the pattern-file is to support fmtutil's --byhyphen # option. It is not included in the command line to rebuild the format. # If no pattern-file is desired, use -. # fmtutil always passes the -ini option to the engine. # # Other notes: # 1) tex and amstex just load hyphen.tex. No customization. # You can have your own customized (via babel's hyphen.cfg) # formats on top of plain by using "bplain.tex" instead of # plain.tex (e.g., bplain.ini file for bplain format). # # 2) etex-based formats load language.def, not language.dat. # # 3) The symbolic link to the right engines (e.g. bplain -> tex) # is generated by the "texlinks" script. # # 4) usual comments start with "# ", whereas disabled configurations # start with "#! " in this file. # # 5) The entries in the main TeX Live fmtutil.cnf are created from the # AddFormat directives in (ultimately) the *.tlpsrc files. Don't edit here.