kpsetool - Man Page
script to make teTeX-style kpsetool, kpsexpand, and kpsepath available
Synopsis
kpsetool [ Options... ] COMMAND
kpsexpand [ Options... ] STRING
kpsepath [ Options... ] PATHTYPE
Description
kpsetool is a Bourne shell script that makes a teTeX-style kpsetool, kpsexpand, and kpsepath available. kpsetool uses web2c´s (new) kpsexpand binary, so the syntax for kpsexpand is incompatible with teTeX´s as of version 0.4.
Options
- -m mode
set Metafont mode
- -n progname
pretend to be progname to kpathsea
- -p
act like kpsepath(1)
- -v
act like kpsexpand(1)
- -w
act like kpsewhich(1)
Usage
PATHTYPE can be
- base
Metafont memory dump
- bib
BibTeX bibliography source
- bst
BibTeX style files
- cnf
Kpathsea runtime configuration files
- dvips_config
dvips config files
- dvips_header
dvips header files
- fmt
TeX memory dump
- gf
generic font bitmap
- mem
MetaPost memory dump
- mf
Metafont source
- mfpool
Metafont program strings
- mp
MetaPost source
- mppool
MetaPost program strings
- mpsupport
MetaPost support files
- pict
Other kinds of figures
- pk
packed bitmap font
- tex
TeX source
- texpool
TeX program strings
- tfm
TeX font metrics
- troff_font
troff fonts
- vf
virtual font
See Also
Kpathsea: A library for path searching (info or DVI file)
Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>
Bugs
Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (public mailing list).
Author
kpsetool was written by Thomas Esser in March, 1997. kpsetool is in the public domain.
This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live.
Referenced By
The man pages kpsepath(1) and kpsexpand(1) are aliases of kpsetool(1).