Section 1 · User commands

kpsetool.1

Package: texlive-texlive-scripts-extra

kpsetool

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
USAGE
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR

NAME

kpsetool − 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

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.