Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   26626 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

kpsetool(1)			    TeXLive			   kpsetool(1)

NAME
       kpsetool	 -  script  to	make  TeXLive-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 TeXLive-style  kpsetool,
       kpsexpand, and kpsepath available.

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
       kpsewhich(1)

       Kpathsea: A library for path searching (info or DVI file)

       Web page: <http://tug.org/texlive/>

BUGS
       None  known,  but  report any bugs found to <tex-live@tug.org> (mailing
       list).

AUTHOR
       kpsetool was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> in March,
       1997.  kpsetool is in the public domain.

       This  manual  page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the
       Debian GNU/Linux system.	 It may be used by other distributions without
       contacting  the	author.	  Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page
       are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should
       be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

TeXLive				September 2000			   kpsetool(1)

Vote for polarhome