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INFO-DIR-SECTION TeX
START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
* Kpathsea: (kpathsea).                       File lookup along search paths.
* kpsewhich: (kpathsea)Invoking kpsewhich.    TeX file searching.
* mktexfmt: (kpathsea)mktex scripts.          Format (fmt/base/mem) generation.
* mktexlsr: (kpathsea)Filename database.      Update ls-R.
* mktexmf: (kpathsea)mktex scripts.           MF source generation.
* mktexpk: (kpathsea)mktex scripts.           PK bitmap generation.
* mktextex: (kpathsea)mktex scripts.          TeX source generation.
* mktextfm: (kpathsea)mktex scripts.          TeX font metric generation.
END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY


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Kpathsea library
****************

This manual documents the Kpathsea library for path searching.  It
corresponds to version 6.4.0, released in January 2024.

* Menu:

* Introduction::             Overview and history.

* unixtex.ftp::              Obtaining TeX software.
* Security::                 Who can write what files, etc.
* TeX directory structure::  Managing the horde of TeX input files.

* Path searching::           How filename lookups work.
* TeX support::              Special support for TeX-related file lookups.

* Programming::              How to use Kpathsea features in your program.

* Reporting bugs::           Where and how to report bugs.
* Index::                    General index.


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1 Introduction
**************

This manual corresponds to version 6.4.0 of the Kpathsea library,
released in January 2024.

   The library's fundamental purpose is to return a filename from a list
of directories specified by the user, similar to what shells do when
looking up program names to execute.

   The following software, all of which is maintained in parallel, uses
this library:

   • Dviljk (see the ‘dvilj’ man page)
   • Dvipsk (*note (dvips)::)
   • GNU font utilities (*note (fontu)::)
   • Web2c (*note (web2c)::)
   • Xdvik (see the ‘xdvi’ man page)

Other software that we do not maintain also uses it.

   Kpathsea is now maintained as part of the TeX Live distribution
(<https://tug.org/texlive>), which includes several more Kpathsea-using
programs.  For information on configuration, building, installing, and
more, *note (tlbuild)::.

   The library is still actively maintained.  If you have comments or
suggestions, please send along (*note Reporting bugs::).

   The Kpathsea library is distributed under the GNU Library General
Public License (LGPL), version 2.1 or (at your option) any later
version.  In short, this means if you write a program using the library,
you must (offer to) distribute the source to the library, along with any
changes you have made, and allow anyone to modify the library source and
distribute their modifications.  It does not mean you have to distribute
the source to your program using the library, although we hope you will.
See accompanying files for the text of the GNU licenses, or
<https://gnu.org/licenses>.

   If you know enough about TeX to be reading this manual, then you (or
your institution) should consider joining the TeX Users Group (if you're
already a member, thanks!).  TUG produces the periodical ‘TUGboat’,
sponsors an annual meeting and publishes the proceedings, and arranges
courses on TeX for all levels of users throughout the world.  See
<https://tug.org> for information.

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* History::


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1.1 History
===========

This section is for those people who are curious about how the library
came about.  If you like to read historical accounts of software, we
urge you to seek out the GNU Autoconf manual and the "Errors of TeX"
paper by Don Knuth, published in his book ‘Digital Typography’, among
other places.

   [Karl writes.]  My first ChangeLog entry for Web2c seems to be
February 1990, but I may have done some work before then.  In any case,
Tim Morgan and I were jointly maintaining it for a time.  (I should
mention here that Tim had made Web2c into a real distribution long
before I had ever used it or even heard of it, and Tom Rokicki did the
original implementation.  When I started, I was using ‘pxp’ and ‘pc’ on
VAX 11/750's and the hot new Sun 2 machines.)

   It must have been later in 1990 and 1991 that I started working on
‘TeX for the Impatient’.  Dvips, Xdvi, Web2c, and the GNU fontutils
(which I was also writing at the time) all used different environment
variables, and, more importantly, had different bugs in their path
searching.  This became extremely painful, as I was stressing everything
to the limit working on the book.  I also desperately wanted to
implement subdirectory searching, since I couldn't stand putting
everything in one big directory, and also couldn't stand having to
explicitly specify ‘cm’, ‘pandora’, ... in a path.

   In the first incarnation, I just hacked separately on each
program--that was the original subdirectory searching code in both Xdvi
and Dvips.  That is, I tried to go with the flow in each program, rather
than changing the program's calling sequences to conform to new
routines.

   Then, as bugs inevitably appeared, I found I was fixing the same
thing three times (Web2c and fontutils were already sharing code, since
I maintained both of those--there was no Dvipsk or Xdvik or Dviljk at
this point).  After a while, I finally started sharing source files.
They weren't yet a library, though.  I just kept things up to date with
shell scripts.  (I was developing on a 386 running ISC 2.2 at the time,
and so didn't have symbolic links.  An awful experience.)

   The ChangeLogs for Xdvik and Dvipsk record initial releases of those
distributions in May and June 1992.  I think it was because I was tired
of the different configuration strategies of each program, not so much
because of the path searching.  Autoconf was being developed by David
MacKenzie and others, and I was adapting it to TeX and friends.

   I started to make a separate library that other programs could link
with on my birthday in April 1993, according to the ChangeLog.  I don't
remember exactly why I finally took the time to make it a separate
library; a conversation with david zuhn initiated it.  Just seemed like
it was time.

   Dviljk got started in March 1994 after I bought a Laserjet 4.
(Kpathsea work got suspended while Norm Walsh and I, with Gustaf
Neumann's help, implemented a way for TeX to get at all those neat
builtin LJ4 fonts ... such a treat to have something to typeset in
besides Palatino!)

   By spring of 1995, I had implemented just about all the
path-searching features in Kpathsea that I plan to, driven beyond my
initial goals by Thomas Esser and others.  I then started to integrate
Web2c with Kpathsea.  After the release of a stable Web2c, I hope to be
able to stop development, and turn most of my attention back to making
fonts for GNU. (Always assuming Micros**t hasn't completely obliterated
Unix by then, or that software patents haven't stopped software
development by anybody smaller than a company with a
million-dollar-a-year legal budget.  Which is actually what I think is
likely to happen, but that's another story...)

   [Olaf writes.]  At the end of 1997, Unix is still alive and kicking,
individuals still develop software, and Web2c development still
continues.  Karl had been looking for some time for someone to take up
part of the burden, and I volunteered.

   [Karl writes again.]  Indeed, time goes on.  As of 2006 or so, Olaf's
available time for Kpathsea was reduced, and I started taking overall
care of it again, although I did not do any significant new development.
In 2009, Taco Hoekwater implemented a major rearrangement to make the
library suitable for use within the MetaPost library (*note Programming
overview::).  Also, for some years now, Peter Breitenlohner has made
many improvements to the infrastructure and kept it up-to-date with
respect to the overall TeX Live build, where Kpathsea is now maintained.


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2 ‘unixtex.ftp’: Obtaining TeX
******************************

This is <ftp://tug.org/tex/unixtex.ftp>, a.k.a.
<https://tug.org/unixtex.ftp>, last updated 29 February 2020.  Email
<tex-k@tug.org> with comments or questions.

   The principal free TeX distribution for Unix-like systems is TeX
Live, on the web at <http://tug.org/texlive>.  The pages there describe
many ways to acquire and/or build TeX, over the Internet or on physical
media, both the sources and precompiled binaries for many systems,
either standalone or as part of various operating system distributions.

   Web2c, Kpathsea, Dvips, and Dviljk, among others, are no longer
released as a separate packages.  Their sources are now maintained as
part of TeX Live.

   The host ftp.cs.stanford.edu is the original source for the files for
which Donald Knuth is directly responsible: ‘tex.web’, ‘plain.tex’, etc.
However, unless you want to undertake the project of building your TeX
system from scratch, it is more reliable and less work to retrieve these
files as part of a larger package.

   In any case, the Stanford ftp site is not the canonical source for
anything except what was created as part of Knuth's original TeX, so do
not rely on any other files available there being up-to-date.  The best
place to check for up-to-date files is CTAN (the Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network), <https://ctan.org>.


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3 Security
**********

None of the programs in the TeX system require any special system
privileges, so there's no first-level security concern of people gaining
illegitimate root access.

   Thus, the general goal of our security measures is to make an
untrusted TeX document safe to execute, in the sense of no document
being able to change the system or user configuration, or somehow
transmit information to an attacker.  Here are some of the steps that
have been taken to make the TeX system safe in this regard:

   • A TeX document can write to arbitrary files via ‘\openout’, e.g.,
     ‘~/.profile’, and thus an unwitting user who runs TeX on an
     untrusted document is vulnerable to a trojan horse attack.  This
     loophole is closed by default, but you can be permissive if you so
     desire in ‘texmf.cnf’.  *Note (web2c)tex invocation::.  MetaPost
     has the same issue.

   • Dvips, Xdvi, TeX, and others can execute shell commands.  By
     default, only a handful of commands that are believed to be safe
     (to the best of our ability to check) are allowed.  For the list,
     see the ‘shell_escape_commands’ variable in ‘texmf.cnf’ (*note
     (web2c)Shell escapes::).  For more information, e.g., to disable
     this completely, see the ‘-R’ option in *note (dvips)Option
     details::, the xdvi man page, and *note (web2c)tex invocation::,
     respectively.

   • LuaTeX is a special case.  Since Lua is a general-purpose
     programming language, it has all the usual functionality for
     writing files, executing shell commands, and plenty more.  When
     LuaTeX is used in its so-called "kpse" mode, as with LuaLaTeX, we
     have nevertheless done our best to also make it safe to execute by
     default, by disabling or restricting the various problematic Lua
     features.  *Note Safe filenames::, for a bit more about this.  (By
     the way, when LuaTeX is run in non-kpse mode, as with ConTeXt MkIV,
     everything is allowed; thus, untrusted documents should not be
     processed without checking.)

   • There are some well-known ways to crash TeX, using (deliberately
     unchecked) arithmetic overflow and other nefarious constructs (some
     are listed at <https://tug.org/texmfbug/nobug.html>.  While
     disturbing, TeX has no special system access and so these crashes
     don't present a security risk.

   • One more issue is the desire for a globally writable font cache
     directory; see the section below for this (*note Global font cache
     and security::).

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* Global font cache and security::


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3.1 Global font cache and security
==================================

It's useful to make arbitrary fonts on user demand with ‘mktexpk’ and
friends.  Where do these files get installed?  By default, the ‘mktexpk’
distributed with Kpathsea assumes a world-writable ‘/var/tmp’ directory;
this is a simple and convenient approach, but it does not suit all
situations, because it means that a local cache of fonts is created on
every user's system.

   To avoid this duplication, many people consider a shared, globally
writable font tree desirable, in spite of the potential security
problems.  To do this you should change the value of ‘VARTEXFONTS’ in
‘texmf.cnf’ to refer to some globally known directory.  *Note mktex
configuration::.

   The first restriction you can apply is to make newly-created
directories under ‘texmf’ be append-only with an option in ‘mktex.cnf’.
*Note mktex configuration::.

   Another approach is to establish a group (or user) for TeX files,
make the ‘texmf’ tree writable only to that group (or user), and make
‘mktexpk’ et al. setgid to that group (or setuid to that user).  Then
users must invoke the scripts to install things.  (If you're worried
about the inevitable security holes in scripts, then you could write a C
wrapper to exec the script.)

   The ‘mktex...’ scripts install files with the same read and write
permissions as the directory they are installed in.  The executable,
sgid, suid, and sticky bits are always cleared.

   Any directories created by the ‘mktex...’ scripts have the same
permissions as their parent directory, unless the ‘appendonlydir’
feature is used, in which case the sticky bit is always set.

   Nowadays, with bitmap files rarely used, and with individual systems
being so much more powerful, this is less of an issue than it was in the
past.  But the question still comes up occasionally.


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4 TeX directory structure
*************************

This section describes the default installation hierarchy of the
distribution.  It conforms to both the GNU coding standards and the TeX
directory structure (TDS) standard.  For rationale and further
explanation, please see those documents.  The GNU document is available
from <https://gnu.org/prep/standards>.  The TDS document is available
from <https://ctan.org/pkg/tds> (*note unixtex.ftp::).

   In short, here is a skeleton of the default directory structure,
extracted from the TDS document:

     PREFIX/      installation root (‘/usr/local’ by default)
      bin/         executables
      man/         man pages
      include/     C header files
      info/        GNU info files
      lib/         libraries (‘libkpathsea.*’)
      share/       architecture-independent files
       texmf/      TDS root
        bibtex/     BibTeX input files
         bib/        BibTeX databases
          base/       base distribution (e.g., ‘xampl.bib’)
          misc/       single-file databases
          PKG/       name of a package
         bst/        BibTeX style files
          base/       base distribution (e.g., ‘plain.bst’, ‘acm.bst’)
          misc/       single-file styles
          PKG/       name of a package
        doc/         additional documentation
        dvips/       ‘.pro’, ‘.ps’, ‘psfonts.map’
        fonts/       font-related files
         TYPE/         file type (e.g., ‘tfm’, ‘pk’)
          MODE/          type of output device (types ‘pk’ and ‘gf’ only)
           SUPPLIER/       name of a font supplier (e.g., ‘public’)
            TYPEFACE/        name of a typeface (e.g., ‘cm’)
             dpiNNN/           font resolution (types ‘pk’ and ‘gf’ only)
        metafont/    Metafont (non-font) input files
         base/        base distribution (e.g., ‘plain.mf’)
         misc/        single-file packages (e.g., ‘modes.mf’)
         PKG/           name of a package (e.g., ‘mfpic’)
        metapost/    MetaPost input files
         base/        base distribution (e.g., ‘plain.mp’)
         misc/        single-file packages
         PKG/           name of a package
         support/     support files for MetaPost-related utilities (e.g., ‘trfonts.map’)
        mft/         ‘MFT’ inputs (e.g., ‘plain.mft’)
        tex/         TeX input files
         FORMAT/         name of a format (e.g., ‘plain’)
          base/        base distribution for FORMAT (e.g., ‘plain.tex’)
          misc/        single-file packages (e.g., ‘webmac.tex’)
          local/       local additions to or local configuration files for FORMAT
          PKG/           name of a package (e.g., ‘graphics’, ‘mfnfss’)
         generic/     format-independent packages
          hyphen/      hyphenation patterns (e.g., ‘hyphen.tex’)
          images/      image input files (e.g., Encapsulated PostScript)
          misc/        single-file format-independent packages (e.g., ‘null.tex’).
          PKG/           name of a package (e.g., ‘babel’)
        web2c/        implementation-dependent files (‘.pool’, ‘.fmt’, ‘texmf.cnf’, etc.)

   Some concrete examples for most file types:

     /usr/local/bin/tex
     /usr/local/man/man1/xdvi.1
     /usr/local/info/kpathsea.info
     /usr/local/lib/libkpathsea.a
     /usr/local/share/texmf/bibtex/bst/base/plain.bst
     /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.600pk
     /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/source/public/pandora/pnr10.mf
     /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/public/cm/cmr10.tfm
     /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/putr.pfa
     /usr/local/share/texmf/metafont/base/plain.mf
     /usr/local/share/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp
     /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex
     /usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
     /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/tex.pool
     /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt
     /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf


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5 Path searching
****************

This chapter describes the generic path searching mechanism Kpathsea
provides.  For information about searching for particular file types
(e.g., TeX fonts), see the next chapter.

   This section, with minor differences, has been translated into
several other languages (Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, French,
German, ...) as part of the TeX Live guide; see
<https://tug.org/texlive/doc.html> for links.

* Menu:

* Searching overview::          Basic scheme for searching.
* Path sources::                Where search paths can be defined.
* Path expansion::              Special constructs in search paths.
* Casefolding search::          Fallback to case-insensitive search.
* Filename database::           Using an externally-built list to search.
* Invoking kpsewhich::          Standalone path lookup.


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5.1 Searching overview
======================

A “search path” is a colon-separated list of “path elements”, which are
directory names with a few extra frills.  A search path can come from (a
combination of) many sources; see below.  To look up a file ‘foo’ along
a path ‘.:/dir’, Kpathsea checks each element of the path in turn: first
‘./foo’, then ‘/dir/foo’, returning the first match (or possibly all
matches).

   The "colon" and "slash" mentioned here aren't necessarily ‘:’ and ‘/’
on non-Unix systems.  Kpathsea tries to adapt to other operating
systems' conventions.

   To check a particular path element E, Kpathsea first sees if a
prebuilt database (*note Filename database::) applies to E, i.e., if the
database is in a directory that is a prefix of E.  If so, the path
specification is matched against the contents of the database.

   If the database does not exist, or does not apply to this path
element, or contains no matches, the filesystem is searched (if this was
not forbidden by the specification with ‘!!’ and if the file being
searched for must exist).  Kpathsea constructs the list of directories
that correspond to this path element, and then checks in each for the
file being searched for.  (To help speed future lookups of files in the
same directory, the directory in which a file is found is floated to the
top of the directory list.)

   The "file must exist" condition comes into play with VF files and
input files read by the TeX ‘\openin’ command.  These files might very
well not exist (consider ‘cmr10.vf’), and so it would be wrong to search
the disk for them.  Therefore, if you fail to update ‘ls-R’ when you
install a new VF file, it will not be found.

   Each path element is checked in turn: first the database, then the
disk.  If a match is found, the search stops and the result is returned
(unless the search explicitly requested all matches).  This avoids
possibly-expensive processing of path specifications that are never
needed on a particular run.

   On Unix-like systems, if no match is found by any of the above, and
the path element allows checking the filesystem (per the above), a final
check is made for a case-insensitive match.  Thus, looking for a name
like ‘./FooBar.TeX’ will match a file ‘./foobar.tex’, and vice versa.
This is not done on Windows.  *Note Casefolding search::.

   Although the simplest and most common path element is a directory
name, Kpathsea supports additional features in search paths: layered
default values, environment variable names, config file values, users'
home directories, and recursive subdirectory searching.  Thus, we say
that Kpathsea “expands” a path element, meaning transforming all the
magic specifications into the basic directory name or names.  This
process is described in the sections below.  It happens in the same
order as the sections.

   Exception to all of the above: If the filename being searched for is
absolute or explicitly relative, i.e., starts with ‘/’ or ‘./’ or ‘../’,
Kpathsea simply checks if that file exists, with a fallback to a
casefolding match if needed and enabled, as described above.

   Ordinarily, if Kpathsea tries to access a file or directory that
cannot be read, it gives a warning.  This is so you will be alerted to
directories or files that accidentally lack any read permission (for
example, a ‘lost+found’ directory).  If you prefer not to see these
warnings, include the value ‘readable’ in the ‘TEX_HUSH’ environment
variable or config file value.

   This generic path searching algorithm is implemented in
‘kpathsea/pathsearch.c’.  It is employed by a higher-level algorithm
when searching for a file of a particular type (*note File lookup::, and
*note Glyph lookup::).


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5.2 Path sources
================

A search path or other configuration value can come from many sources.
In the order in which Kpathsea looks for them:

  1. A command-line option such as ‘--cnf-line’, available in
     ‘kpsewhich’ and most TeX engines.  *Note Path searching options::.

     A user-set environment variable, e.g., ‘TEXINPUTS’.  Environment
     variables with an underscore and the program name appended
     override; for example, ‘TEXINPUTS_latex’ overrides ‘TEXINPUTS’ if
     the program being run is named ‘latex’.

  2. A program-specific configuration file, e.g., an ‘S /a:/b’ line in
     Dvips' ‘config.ps’ (*note (dvips)Config files::).

  3. A line in a Kpathsea configuration file ‘texmf.cnf’, e.g.,
     ‘TEXINPUTS=/c:/d’ (see below).

  4. The compile-time default (specified in ‘kpathsea/paths.h’).

   You can see each of these values for a given search path by using the
debugging options (*note Debugging::).

   These sources may be combined via default expansion (*note Default
expansion::).

* Menu:

* Config files::        Kpathsea's runtime config files (texmf.cnf).


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5.2.1 Config files
------------------

As mentioned above, Kpathsea reads “runtime configuration files” named
‘texmf.cnf’ for search path and other definitions.  The search path used
to look for these configuration files is named ‘TEXMFCNF’, and is
constructed in the usual way, as described above, except that
configuration files cannot be used to define the path, naturally; also,
an ‘ls-R’ database is not used to search for them.

   Kpathsea reads _all_ ‘texmf.cnf’ files in the search path, not just
the first one found; definitions in earlier files override those in
later files.  Thus, if the search path is ‘.:$TEXMF’, values from
‘./texmf.cnf’ override those from ‘$TEXMF/texmf.cnf’.

   If Kpathsea cannot find any ‘texmf.cnf’ file, it reports a warning
including all the directories it checked.  If you don't want to see this
warning, set the environment variable ‘KPATHSEA_WARNING’ to the single
character ‘0’ (zero, not oh).

   While (or instead of) reading this description, you may find it
helpful to look at the distributed ‘texmf.cnf’, which uses or at least
mentions most features.  The format of ‘texmf.cnf’ files follows:

   • Comments start with ‘%’ or ‘#’, either at the beginning of a line
     or preceded by whitespace, and continue to the end of the line.
     That is, similar to most shells, a comment character in the
     "middle" of a value does not start a comment.  Examples:

          % this is a comment
          var = a%b  % but the value of var will be "a%b"

   • Blank lines are ignored.

   • A ‘\’ at the end of a line acts as a continuation character, i.e.,
     the next line is appended.  Whitespace at the beginning of
     continuation lines is not ignored.

   • Each remaining line will look like:

          VARIABLE [. PROGNAME] [=] VALUE

     where the ‘=’ and surrounding whitespace is optional.

   • The VARIABLE name may contain any character other than whitespace,
     ‘=’, or ‘.’, but sticking to ‘A-Za-z_’ is safest.

   • If ‘.PROGNAME’ is present (preceding spaces are ignored), the
     definition only applies if the program that is running is named
     (i.e., the last component of ‘argv[0]’ is) PROGNAME or
     ‘PROGNAME.{exe,bat,cmd,...}’.  Most notably, this allows different
     flavors of TeX to have different search paths.  The PROGNAME value
     is used literally, without variable or other expansions.

   • Considered as strings, VALUE may contain any character.  However,
     in practice most ‘texmf.cnf’ values are related to path expansion,
     and since various special characters are used in expansion, such as
     braces and commas, they cannot be used in directory names.

     The ‘$VAR.PROG’ feature is not available on the right-hand side;
     instead, you must use an additional variable (see below for
     example).

     A ‘;’ in VALUE is translated to ‘:’ if running under Unix, in order
     to have a single ‘texmf.cnf’ that can support both Unix and Windows
     systems.  This translation happens with any value, not just search
     paths, but fortunately in practice ‘;’ is not needed in other
     values.

   • All definitions are read before anything is expanded, so you can
     use variables before they are defined (like Make, unlike most other
     programs).

Here is a configuration file fragment illustrating most of these points:

     % TeX input files -- i.e., anything to be found by \input or \openin ...
     latex209_inputs = .:$TEXMF/tex/latex209//:$TEXMF/tex//
     latex2e_inputs = .:$TEXMF/tex/latex//:$TEXMF/tex//
     TEXINPUTS = .:$TEXMF/tex//
     TEXINPUTS.latex209 = $latex209_inputs
     TEXINPUTS.latex2e = $latex2e_inputs
     TEXINPUTS.latex = $latex2e_inputs

   The combination of spaces being ignored before the ‘.’ of a program
name qualifer and the optional ‘=’ for the assignment has an unexpected
consequence: if the value begins with a literal ‘.’ and the ‘=’ is
omitted, the intended value is interpreted as a program name.  For
example, a line ‘var .;/some/path’ is taken as an empty value for ‘var’
running under the program named ‘;/some/path’.  To diagnose this,
Kpathsea warns if the program name contains a path separator or other
special character.  The simplest way to avoid the problem is to use the
‘=’.

   Exactly when a character will be considered special or act as itself
depends on the context in which it is used.  The rules are inherent in
the multiple levels of interpretation of the configuration (parsing,
expansion, search, ...) and so cannot be concisely stated,
unfortunately.  There is no general escape mechanism; in particular, ‘\’
is not an "escape character" in ‘texmf.cnf’ files.  When it comes
choosing directory names for installation, it is safest to avoid them
all.

   The implementation of all this is in ‘kpathsea/cnf.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Path expansion,  Next: Casefolding search,  Prev: Path sources,  Up: Path searching

5.3 Path expansion
==================

Kpathsea recognizes certain special characters and constructions in
search paths, similar to that in shells.  As a general example:
‘~$USER/{foo,bar}//baz’ expands to all subdirectories under directories
‘foo’ and ‘bar’ in $USER's home directory that contain a directory or
file ‘baz’.

   These expansions are explained in the sections below.

* Menu:

* Default expansion::           a: or :a or a::b expands to a default.
* Variable expansion::          $foo and ${foo} expand to environment values.
* Tilde expansion::             ~ and ~user expand to home directories.
* Brace expansion::             a{foo,bar}b expands to afoob abarb.
* KPSE_DOT expansion::          . is replaced with $KPSE_DOT if it is defined.
* Subdirectory expansion::      a// and a//b recursively expand to subdirs.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Default expansion,  Next: Variable expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.1 Default expansion
-----------------------

If the highest-priority search path (*note Path sources::) contains an
“extra colon” (i.e., leading, trailing, or doubled), Kpathsea inserts at
that point the next-highest-priority search path that is defined.  If
that inserted path has an extra colon, the same happens with the
next-highest.  (An extra colon in the compile-time default value has
unpredictable results, so installers beware.)

   For example, given an environment variable setting

     setenv TEXINPUTS /home/karl:

and a ‘TEXINPUTS’ value from ‘texmf.cnf’ of

     .:$TEXMF//tex

then the final value used for searching will be:

     /home/karl:.:$TEXMF//tex

   Put another way, default expansion works on "formats" (search paths),
and not directly on environment variables.  Example, showing the
trailing ‘:’ ignored in the first case and expanded in the second:

     $ env TTFONTS=/tmp: kpsewhich --expand-path '$TTFONTS'
     /tmp
     $ env TTFONTS=/tmp: kpsewhich --show-path=.ttf
     /tmp:.:/home/olaf/texmf/fonts/truetype//:...

   Since Kpathsea looks for multiple configuration files, it would be
natural to expect that (for example) an extra colon in ‘./texmf.cnf’
would expand to the path in ‘$TEXMF/texmf.cnf’.  Or, with Dvips'
configuration files, that an extra colon in ‘config.$PRINTER’ would
expand to the path in ‘config.ps’.  This doesn't happen.  It's not clear
this would be desirable in all cases, and trying to devise a way to
specify the path to which the extra colon should expand seemed truly
baroque.

   Technicality: Since it would be useless to insert the default value
in more than one place, Kpathsea changes only one extra ‘:’ and leaves
any others in place (they will eventually be ignored).  Kpathsea checks
first for a leading ‘:’, then a trailing ‘:’, then a doubled ‘:’.

   You can trace this by debugging "paths" (*note Debugging::).  Default
expansion is implemented in the source file ‘kpathsea/kdefault.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Variable expansion,  Next: Tilde expansion,  Prev: Default expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.2 Variable expansion
------------------------

‘$foo’ or ‘${foo}’ in a path element is replaced by (1) the value of an
environment variable ‘foo’ (if defined); (2) the value of ‘foo’ from
‘texmf.cnf’ (if defined); (3) the empty string.

   If the character after the ‘$’ is alphanumeric or ‘_’, the variable
name consists of all consecutive such characters.  If the character
after the ‘$’ is a ‘{’, the variable name consists of everything up to
the next ‘}’ (braces may not be nested around variable names).
Otherwise, Kpathsea gives a warning and ignores the ‘$’ and its
following character.

   You must quote the $'s and braces as necessary for your shell.
_Shell_ variable values cannot be seen by Kpathsea, i.e., ones defined
by ‘set’ in C shells and without ‘export’ in Bourne shells.

   For example, given
     setenv tex /home/texmf
     setenv TEXINPUTS .:$tex:${tex}prev
the final ‘TEXINPUTS’ path is the three directories:
     .:/home/texmf:/home/texmfprev

   The ‘.PROGNAME’ suffix on variables and ‘_PROGNAME’ on environment
variable names are not implemented for general variable expansions.
These are only recognized when search paths are initialized (*note Path
sources::).

   Variable expansion is implemented in the source file
‘kpathsea/variable.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Tilde expansion,  Next: Brace expansion,  Prev: Variable expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.3 Tilde expansion
---------------------

A leading ‘~’ in a path element is replaced by the value of the
environment variable ‘HOME’, or ‘.’ if ‘HOME’ is not set.  On Windows,
the environment variable ‘USERPROFILE’ is checked instead of ‘HOME’.

   A leading ‘~USER’ in a path element is replaced by USER's home
directory from the system ‘passwd’ database.

   For example,
     setenv TEXINPUTS ~/mymacros:

will prepend a directory ‘mymacros’ in your home directory to the
default path.

   As a special case, if a home directory ends in ‘/’, the trailing
slash is dropped, to avoid inadvertently creating a ‘//’ construct in
the path.  For example, if the home directory of the user ‘root’ is ‘/’,
the path element ‘~root/mymacros’ expands to just ‘/mymacros’, not
‘//mymacros’.

   Tilde expansion is implemented in the source file ‘kpathsea/tilde.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Brace expansion,  Next: KPSE_DOT expansion,  Prev: Tilde expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.4 Brace expansion
---------------------

‘x{A,B}y’ expands to ‘xAy:xBy’.  For example:

     foo/{1,2}/baz

expands to ‘foo/1/baz:foo/2/baz’.  ‘:’ is the path separator on the
current system; e.g., on a Windows system, it's ‘;’.

   Braces can be nested; for example, ‘x{A,B{1,2}}y’ expands to
‘xAy:xB1y:xB2y’.

   Multiple non-nested braces are expanded from right to left; for
example, ‘x{A,B}{1,2}y’ expands to ‘x{A,B}1y:x{A,B}2y’, which expands to
‘xA1y:xB1y:xA2y:xB2y’.

   This feature can be used to implement multiple TeX hierarchies, by
assigning a brace list to ‘$TEXMF’, as mentioned in ‘texmf.in’.

   You can also use the path separator instead of the comma.  The last
example could have been written ‘x{A:B}{1:2}y’ (on Unix).

   Brace expansion is implemented in the source file
‘kpathsea/expand.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: KPSE_DOT expansion,  Next: Subdirectory expansion,  Prev: Brace expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.5 ‘KPSE_DOT’ expansion
--------------------------

When ‘KPSE_DOT’ is defined in the environment, it names a directory that
should be considered the current directory for the purpose of looking up
files in the search paths.  This feature is needed by the ‘mktex...’
scripts *note mktex scripts::, because these change the working
directory.  You should not ever define it yourself.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Subdirectory expansion,  Prev: KPSE_DOT expansion,  Up: Path expansion

5.3.6 Subdirectory expansion
----------------------------

Two or more consecutive slashes in a path element following a directory
D is replaced by all subdirectories of D: first those subdirectories
directly under D, then the subsubdirectories under those, and so on.  At
each level, the order in which the directories are searched is
unspecified.  (It's "directory order", and definitely not alphabetical.)

   If you specify any filename components after the ‘//’, only
subdirectories which match those components are included.  For example,
‘/a//b’ would expand into directories ‘/a/1/b’, ‘/a/2/b’, ‘/a/1/1/b’,
and so on, but not ‘/a/b/c’ or ‘/a/1’.

   You can include multiple ‘//’ constructs in the path.

   ‘//’ at the beginning of a path is ignored; you didn't really want to
search every directory on the system, did you?

   I should mention one related implementation trick, which I took from
GNU find.  Matthew Farwell suggested it, and David MacKenzie implemented
it.

   The trick is that in every real Unix implementation (as opposed to
the POSIX specification), a directory which contains no subdirectories
will have exactly two links (namely, one for ‘.’ and one for ‘..’).
That is to say, the ‘st_nlink’ field in the ‘stat’ structure will be
two.  Thus, we don't have to stat everything in the bottom-level (leaf)
directories--we can just check ‘st_nlink’, notice it's two, and do no
more work.

   But if you have a directory that contains a single subdirectory and
500 regular files, ‘st_nlink’ will be 3, and Kpathsea has to stat every
one of those 501 entries.  Therein lies slowness.

   You can disable the trick by undefining ‘ST_NLINK_TRICK’ in
‘kpathsea/config.h’.  (It is undefined by default except under Unix.)

   Unfortunately, in some cases files in leaf directories are ‘stat’'d:
if the path specification is, say, ‘$TEXMF/fonts//pk//’, then files in a
subdirectory ‘.../pk’, even if it is a leaf, are checked.  The reason
cannot be explained without reference to the implementation, so read
‘kpathsea/elt-dirs.c’ (search for ‘may descend’) if you are curious.
And if you find a way to solve the problem, please let me know.

   Subdirectory expansion is implemented in the source file
‘kpathsea/elt-dirs.c’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Casefolding search,  Next: Filename database,  Prev: Path expansion,  Up: Path searching

5.4 Casefolding search
======================

In Kpathsea version 6.3.0 (released with TeX Live 2018), a new fallback
search was implemented on Unix-like systems, including Macs: for each
path element in turn, if no match is found by the normal search, and the
path element allows for checking the filesystem, a second check is made
for a case-insensitive match.

   This is enabled at compile-time on Unix systems, and enabled at
runtime by setting the configuration variable ‘texmf_casefold_search’,
to a true value, e.g., ‘1’; this is done by default in TeX Live.

* Menu:

* Rationale: Casefolding rationale.
* Examples: Casefolding examples.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Casefolding rationale,  Next: Casefolding examples,  Up: Casefolding search

5.4.1 Casefolding rationale
---------------------------

The purpose of the fallback casefolding search is to ease moving complex
documents between case-insensitive (file)systems and case-sensitive
ones.  In particular, Apple decided to make the default filesystem on
Macs be case-insensitive some years ago, and this has exacerbated a
problem of people creating documents that use, say, an image under the
name ‘foo.jpg’, while the actual file is named ‘foo.JPG’ or ‘Foo.jpg’.
It works on the Mac but if the document is transferred and run on a
standard case-sensitive Unix (file)system, the file can't be found, due
only to differences in case.

   This same problematic scenario has always existed on Windows, but for
whatever reason, it has become much more common since Apple also went to
a case-insensitive filesystem.  Hence the relatively late change to the
Kpathsea behavior.

   The fallback case-insensitive search is omitted at compile-time on
Windows, where (for practical purposes) all file names are
case-insensitive at the kernel level, and so the normal search will
already have definitively matched or not.  Therefore, search results in
unusual cases can be different on Windows and Unix--but this has always
been true.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Casefolding examples,  Prev: Casefolding rationale,  Up: Casefolding search

5.4.2 Casefolding examples
--------------------------

The casefolding implementation prefers exact matches to casefolded
matches within a given path element, so as to retain most compatibility.
Backward compatibility is not perfect, however, as a casefolded match
may be found in an earlier path element than an exact match was
previously found (see example #4 below).  Still, preferring the match in
the earlier element seemed potentially less confusing than otherwise,
and is in fact consistent with past behavior on Windows.  Since case
mismatches are rare to begin with, and name collisions with respect only
to case thus even more rare, the hope is that it will not cause
difficulties in practice.

   If it's desirable in a given situation to have the exact same search
behavior as previously, that can be accomplished by setting the
configuration variable ‘texmf_casefold_search’ to ‘0’ (*note Path
sources::).

   Some examples to illustrate the new behavior follow.

   Example #1: suppose the file ‘./foobar.tex’ exists.  Now, searching
for ‘./FooBar.TeX’ (or any other case variation) will succeed, returning
‘./foobar.tex’--the name as stored on disk.  In previous releases, or if
‘texmf_casefold_search’ is false, the search would fail.

   Example #2: suppose we are using a case-sensitive (file)system, and
the search path is ‘.:/somedir’, and the files ‘./foobar.tex’ and
‘/somedir/FooBar.TeX’ both exist.  Both now and previously, searching
for ‘foobar.tex’ returns ‘./foobar.tex’.  However, searching for
‘FooBar.TeX’ now returns ‘./foobar.tex’ instead of
‘/somedir/FooBar.TeX’; this is the incompatibility mentioned above.
Also (as expected), searching for ‘FOOBAR.TEX’ (or whatever variation)
will now return ‘./foobar.tex’, whereas before it would fail.  Searching
for all (‘kpsewhich --all’) ‘foobar.tex’ will return both matches.

   Example #3: same as example #2, but on a case-insensitive
(file)system: both now and previously, searching for ‘FooBar.TeX’
returns ‘./foobar.tex’, since the system considers that a match.  The
Kpathsea casefolding never comes into play.

   Example #4: if we have (on a case-sensitive system) both
‘./foobar.tex’ and ‘./FOOBAR.TEX’, searching with the exact case returns
that exact match, now and previously.  Searching for ‘FooBar.tex’ will
now return one or the other (chosen arbitrarily), rather than failing.
Perhaps unexpectedly, searching for all ‘foobar.tex’ or ‘FooBar.tex’
will also return only one or the other, not both (see more below).

   Example #5: the font file ‘STIX-Regular.otf’ is included in TeX Live
in the system directory ‘texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/stix’.
Because Kpathsea never searches the disk in the big system directory,
the casefolding is not done, and a search for ‘stix-regular.otf’ will
fail (on case-sensitive systems), as it always has.

   The caveat about not searching the disk amounts to saying that
casefolding does not happen in the trees specified with ‘!!’ (*note
ls-R::), that is, where only database (‘ls-R’) searching is done.  In
TeX Live, that is the ‘texmf-local’ and ‘texmf-dist’ trees (also
‘$TEXMFSYSCONFIG’ and ‘$TEXMFSYSVAR’, but those are rarely noticed).
The rationale for this is that in practice, case mangling happens with
user-created files, not with packages distributed as part of the TeX
system.

   One more caveat: the purpose of ‘kpsewhich’ is to exercise the path
searching in Kpathsea as it is actually done.  Therefore, as shown
above, ‘kpsewhich --all’ will not return all matches regardless of case
within a given path element.  If you want to find all matches in all
directories, ‘find’ is the best tool, although the setup takes a couple
steps:

     kpsewhich -show-path=tex >/tmp/texpath      # search path specification
     kpsewhich -expand-path="`cat /tmp/texpath`" >/tmp/texdirs  # all dirs
     tr ':' '\n' </tmp/texdirs >/tmp/texdirlist  # colons to newlines
     find `cat /tmp/texdirlist` -iname somefile.tex -print </tmp/texdirlist

   Sorry that it's annoyingly lengthy, but implementing this inside
Kpathsea would be a lot of error-prone trouble for something that is
only useful for debugging.  If your ‘find’ does not support ‘-iname’,
you can get GNU Find from <https://gnu.org/software/findutils>.

   The casefolding search is implemented in the source file
‘kpathsea/pathsearch.c’.  Two implementation points:

   • Kpathsea never tries to check if a given directory resides on a
     case-insensitive filesystem, because there is no efficient and
     portable way to do so.  All it does is try to see if a potential
     file name is a readable normal file (with, usually, the ‘access’
     system call).

   • Kpathsea does not do any case-insensitive matching of the
     directories along the path.  It's not going to find
     ‘/Some/Random/file.tex’ when looking for ‘/some/random/file.tex’.
     The casefolding only happens with the elements of the leaf
     directory.


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5.5 Filename database (‘ls-R’)
==============================

Kpathsea goes to some lengths to minimize disk accesses for searches
(*note Subdirectory expansion::).  Nevertheless, in practice searching
every possible directory in typical TeX installations takes an
excessively long time.

   Therefore, Kpathsea can use an externally-built “filename database”
file named ‘ls-R’ that maps files to directories, thus avoiding the need
to exhaustively search the disk.

   A second database file ‘aliases’ allows you to give additional names
to the files listed in ‘ls-R’.

   The ‘ls-R’ and ‘aliases’ features are implemented in the source file
‘kpathsea/db.c’.

* Menu:

* ls-R::                        The main filename database.
* Filename aliases::            Aliases for those names.
* Database format::             Syntax details of the database file.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: ls-R,  Next: Filename aliases,  Up: Filename database

5.5.1 ‘ls-R’
------------

As mentioned above, you must name the main filename database ‘ls-R’.
You can put one at the root of each TeX installation hierarchy you wish
to search (‘$TEXMF’ by default, which expands to a braced list of
several hierarchies in TeX Live).

   Kpathsea looks for ‘ls-R’ files along the ‘TEXMFDBS’ path.  It is
best for this to contain all and only those hierarchies from ‘$TEXMF’
which are specified with ‘!!’--and also to specify them with ‘!!’ in
‘TEXMFDBS’.  (See the end of this section for more on ‘!!’.)

   The recommended way to create and maintain ‘ls-R’ is to run the
‘mktexlsr’ script, which is installed in ‘$(bindir)’ (‘/usr/local/bin’
by default).  That script goes to some trouble to follow symbolic links
as necessary, etc.  It's also invoked by the distributed ‘mktex...’
scripts.

   At its simplest, though, you can build ‘ls-R’ with the command
     cd /YOUR/TEXMF/ROOT && ls -LAR ./ >ls-R

presuming your ‘ls’ produces the right output format (see the section
below).  GNU ‘ls’, for example, outputs in this format.  Also presuming
your ‘ls’ hasn't been aliased in a system file (e.g., ‘/etc/profile’) to
something problematic, e.g., ‘ls --color=tty’.  In that case, you will
have to disable the alias before generating ‘ls-R’.  For the precise
definition of the file format, see *note Database format::.

   Regardless of whether you use the supplied script or your own, you
will almost certainly want to invoke it via ‘cron’, so when you make
changes in the installed files (say if you install a new LaTeX package),
‘ls-R’ will be automatically updated.  However, for those using TeX Live
or system distributions, the package managers should run ‘mktexlsr’ as
needed.

   The ‘-A’ option to ‘ls’ includes files beginning with ‘.’ (except for
‘.’ and ‘..’), such as the file ‘.tex’ included with the LaTeX tools
package.  (On the other hand, _directories_ whose names begin with ‘.’
are always ignored.)

   If your system does not support symbolic links, omit the ‘-L’.

   ‘ls -LAR /YOUR/TEXMF/ROOT’ will also work.  But using ‘./’ avoids
embedding absolute pathnames, so the hierarchy can be easily
transported.  It also avoids possible trouble with automounters or other
network filesystem conventions.

   Kpathsea warns you if it finds an ‘ls-R’ file, but the file does not
contain any usable entries.  The usual culprit is running plain ‘ls -R’
instead of ‘ls -LR ./’ or ‘ls -R /YOUR/TEXMF/ROOT’.  Another possibility
is some system directory name starting with a ‘.’ (perhaps if you are
using AFS); Kpathsea ignores everything under such directories.

   If a particular path element begins with ‘!!’, _only_ the database
will be searched for that element, never the disk; and if the database
does not exist, nothing at all will be searched.  In TeX Live, most of
the trees are specified with ‘!!’.

   For path elements that do not begin with ‘!!’, if the database
exists, it will be used, and the disk will not be searched.  However, in
this case, if the database does not exist, the disk will be searched.
In TeX Live, the most notable case of this is the ‘TEXMFHOME’ tree, to
allow users to add and remove files from their own tree without having
to worry about ‘ls-R’.

   (Aside: there are uncommon cases where a ‘!!’ tree will be searched
on disk even if the ‘ls-R’ file exists; they are too obscure to try to
explain here.  See ‘pathsearch.c’ in the source if you need to know.)

   To sum up: do not create an ‘ls-R’ file unless you also take care to
keep it up to date.  Otherwise newly-installed files will not be found.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Filename aliases,  Next: Database format,  Prev: ls-R,  Up: Filename database

5.5.2 Filename aliases
----------------------

In some circumstances, you may wish to find a file under several names.
For example, suppose a TeX document was created using a DOS system and
tries to read ‘longtabl.sty’.  But now it's being run on a Unix system,
and the file has its original name, ‘longtable.sty’.  The file won't be
found.  You need to give the actual file ‘longtable.sty’ an alias
‘longtabl.sty’.

   You can handle this by creating a file ‘aliases’ as a companion to
the ‘ls-R’ for the hierarchy containing the file in question.  (You must
have an ‘ls-R’ for the alias feature to work.)

   The format of ‘aliases’ is simple: two whitespace-separated words per
line; the first is the real name ‘longtable.sty’, and second is the
alias (‘longtabl.sty’).  These must be base filenames, with no directory
components.  ‘longtable.sty’ must be in the sibling ‘ls-R’.

   Also, blank lines and lines starting with ‘%’ or ‘#’ are ignored in
‘aliases’, to allow for comments.

   If a real file ‘longtabl.sty’ exists, it is used regardless of any
aliases.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Database format,  Prev: Filename aliases,  Up: Filename database

5.5.3 Database format
---------------------

The "database" read by Kpathsea is a line-oriented file of plain text.
The format is that generated by GNU (and most other) ‘ls’ programs given
the ‘-R’ option, as follows.

   • Blank lines are ignored.

   • If a line begins with ‘/’ or ‘./’ or ‘../’ and ends with a colon,
     it's the name of a directory.  (‘../’ lines aren't useful, however,
     and should not be generated.)

   • All other lines define entries in the most recently seen directory.
     /'s in such lines will produce possibly-strange results.

   • Files with no preceding directory line are ignored.

   For example, here's the first few lines of ‘ls-R’ (which totals about
30K bytes) on my system:

     bibtex
     dvips
     fonts
     ls-R
     metafont
     metapost
     tex
     web2c

     ./bibtex:
     bib
     bst
     doc

     ./bibtex/bib:
     asi.bib
     btxdoc.bib
     ...


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5.6 ‘kpsewhich’: Standalone path searching
==========================================

The Kpsewhich program exercises the path searching functionality
independent of any particular application.  This can also be useful as a
sort of ‘find’ program to locate files in your TeX hierarchies, perhaps
in administrative scripts.  It is used heavily in the distributed
‘mktex...’ scripts.

   Synopsis:

     kpsewhich OPTION... FILENAME...

   The options and filename(s) to look up can be intermixed.  Options
can start with either ‘-’ or ‘--’, and any unambiguous abbreviation is
accepted.

* Menu:

* Path searching options::      Changing the mode, resolution, etc.
* Specially-recognized files::  Default formats for texmf.cnf, etc.
* Auxiliary tasks::             Path and variable expansion, etc.
* Standard options::            ‘--help’ and ‘--version’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Path searching options,  Next: Specially-recognized files,  Up: Invoking kpsewhich

5.6.1 Path searching options
----------------------------

Kpsewhich looks up each non-option argument on the command line as a
filename, and returns the first file found.

   Various options alter the path searching behavior:

‘--all’
     Report all matches found, one per line.  By default, if there is
     more than one match, just one will be reported (chosen effectively
     at random).  Exception: with the glyph formats (‘pk’, ‘gf’), this
     option has no effect and only the first match is returned.

‘--casefold-search’
‘--no-casefold-search’
     Explicitly enable or disable the fallback to a case-insensitive
     search on Unix platforms (*note Casefolding search::); no effect on
     Windows.  The default is enabled, set in ‘texmf.cnf’.  Disabling
     (‘--no-casefold-search’) does not mean that searches magically
     become case-sensitive when the underlying (file)system is
     case-insensitive, it merely means that Kpathsea does not do any
     casefolding itself.

‘--cnf-line=STR’
     Parse STR as if it were a line in the ‘texmf.cnf’ configuration
     file (*note Config files::), overriding settings in the actual
     configuration files, and also in the environment (*note Path
     sources::).  This is implemented by making any settings from STR in
     the environment, overwriting any value already there.  Thus, an
     extra colon in a ‘--cnf-line’ value will refer to the value from a
     configuration file, not a user-set environment variable.

     Furthermore, any variable set from STR will also be set with the
     program name suffix.  For example, ‘pdftex
     --cnf-line=TEXINPUTS=/foo:’ will set both ‘TEXINPUTS’ and
     ‘TEXINPUTS_pdftex’ in the environment (and the value will be ‘/foo’
     followed by the setting from ‘texmf.cnf’, ignoring any user-set
     ‘TEXINPUTS’).

     This behavior is desirable because, in practice, many variables in
     the distributed ‘texmf.cnf’ are program-specific, and the intuitive
     behavior is for values set on the command line with ‘--cnf-line’ to
     override them.

‘--dpi=NUM’
     Set the resolution to NUM; this only affects ‘gf’ and ‘pk’ lookups.
     ‘-D’ is a synonym, for compatibility with Dvips.  Default is 600.

‘--engine=NAME’
     Set the engine name to NAME.  By default it is not set in
     ‘kpsewhich’ (TeX engines set it to the appropriate string).  The
     engine name is used in some search paths to allow files with the
     same name but used by different engines to coexist.

     In particular, since the memory dump files (‘.fmt’/‘.base’/‘.mem’)
     are now stored in subdirectories named for the engine (‘tex’,
     ‘pdftex’, ‘xetex’, etc.), you must specify an engine name in order
     to find them.  For example, ‘cont-en.fmt’ typically exists for both
     ‘pdftex’ and ‘xetex’.  With the default path settings, you can use
     ‘--engine=/’ to look for any dump file, regardless of engine; if a
     dump file exists for more than one engine, it's indeterminate which
     one is returned.  (The ‘/’ ends up specifying a normal recursive
     search along the path where the dumps are stored, namely
     ‘$TEXMF/web2c{/$engine,}’.)

‘--format=NAME’
     Set the format for lookup to NAME.  By default, the format is
     guessed from the filename, with ‘tex’ being used if nothing else
     fits.  The recognized filename extensions (including any leading
     ‘.’) are also allowable NAMEs.

     All formats also have a name, which is the only way to specify
     formats with no associated suffix.  For example, for Dvips
     configuration files you can use ‘--format="dvips config"’.  (The
     quotes are for the sake of the shell.)

     Here's the current list of recognized names and the associated
     suffixes.  *Note Supported file formats::, for more information on
     each of these.

     The strings in parentheses are abbreviations recognized only by
     ‘kpsewhich’ (not the underlying library calls).  They are provided
     when it would otherwise require an argument containing a space to
     specify the format, to simplify quoting of calls from shells.

          gf: gf
          pk: pk
          bitmap font (bitmapfont):
          tfm: .tfm
          afm: .afm
          base: .base
          bib: .bib
          bst: .bst
          cnf: .cnf
          ls-R: ls-R ls-r
          fmt: .fmt
          map: .map
          mem: .mem
          mf: .mf
          mfpool: .pool
          mft: .mft
          mp: .mp
          mppool: .pool
          MetaPost support (mpsupport):
          ocp: .ocp
          ofm: .ofm .tfm
          opl: .opl  .pl
          otp: .otp
          ovf: .ovf .vf
          ovp: .ovp  .vpl
          graphic/figure:  .eps .epsi
          tex: .tex  .sty .cls .fd .aux .bbl .def .clo .ldf
          TeX system documentation (doc):
          texpool: .pool
          TeX system sources (source):  .dtx .ins
          PostScript header:  .pro
          Troff fonts (trofffont):
          type1 fonts: .pfa .pfb
          vf: .vf
          dvips config (dvipsconfig):
          ist: .ist
          truetype fonts: .ttf .ttc .TTF .TTC .dfont
          type42 fonts: .t42 .T42
          web2c files (web2c):
          other text files (othertext):
          other binary files (otherbin):
          misc fonts (miscfont):
          web: .web  .ch
          cweb: .w .web  .ch
          enc files: .enc
          cmap files (cmap):
          subfont definition files: .sfd
          opentype fonts: .otf .OTF
          pdftex config (pdftexconfig):
          lig files: .lig
          texmfscripts:
          lua: .lua .luatex .luc .luctex .texlua .texluc .tlu
          font feature files: .fea
          cid maps: .cid .cidmap
          mlbib: .mlbib .bib
          mlbst: .mlbst .bst
          clua: .dll .so
          ris: .ris
          bltxml: .bltxml

     This option and ‘--path’ are mutually exclusive.

‘--interactive’
     After processing the command line, read additional filenames to
     look up from standard input.

‘--mktex=FILETYPE’
‘--no-mktex=FILETYPE’
     Turn on or off the ‘mktex’ script associated with FILETYPE.  Usual
     values for FILETYPE are ‘pk’, ‘mf’, ‘tex’, and ‘tfm’.  By default,
     all are off in Kpsewhich, even if they are enabled for TeX.  This
     option implies setting ‘--must-exist’.  *Note mktex scripts::.

‘--mode=STRING’
     Set the mode name to STRING; this also only affects ‘gf’ and ‘pk’
     lookups.  No default: any mode will be found.  *Note mktex script
     arguments::.

‘--must-exist’
     Do everything possible to find the files, notably including
     searching the disk and running the ‘mktex’ scripts.  By default,
     only the ‘ls-R’ database is checked, in the interest of efficiency.

‘--path=STRING’
     Search along the path STRING (colon-separated as usual), instead of
     guessing the search path from the filename.  ‘//’ and all the usual
     expansions are supported (*note Path expansion::).  This option and
     ‘--format’ are mutually exclusive.  To output the complete
     directory expansion of a path, instead of doing a one-shot lookup,
     see ‘--expand-path’ and ‘--show-path’ in the following section.

‘--progname=NAME’
     Set the program name to NAME; default is ‘kpsewhich’.  This can
     affect the search paths via the ‘.PROGNAM’ feature in configuration
     files (*note Config files::).

‘--subdir=STRING’
     Report only those matches whose directory part _ends_ with STRING
     (compared literally, except case is ignored on a case-insensitive
     operating system).  For example, suppose there are two matches for
     a given name:

          kpsewhich foo.sty
          ⇒ /some/where/foo.sty
          /another/place/foo.sty

     Then we can narrow the result to what we are interested in with
     ‘--subdir’:

          kpsewhich --subdir=where foo.sty
          ⇒ /some/where/foo.sty

          kpsewhich --subdir=place foo.sty
          ⇒ /another/place/foo.sty

     The string to match must be at the end of the directory part of the
     match, and it is taken literally, with no pattern matching:

          kpsewhich --subdir=another foo.sty
          ⇒

     The string to match may cross directory components:

          kpsewhich --subdir=some/where foo.sty
          ⇒ /some/where/foo.sty

     ‘--subdir’ implies ‘--all’; if there is more than one match, they
     will all be reported (in our example, both ‘where’ and ‘place’ end
     in ‘e’):

          kpsewhich --subdir=e
          ⇒ /some/where/foo.sty
          /another/place/foo.sty

     Because of the above rules, the presence of a leading ‘/’ is
     important, since it "anchors" the match to a full component name:

          kpsewhich --subdir=/lace foo.sty
          ⇒

     However, a trailing ‘/’ is immaterial (and ignored), since the
     match always takes place at the end of the directory part:

          kpsewhich --subdir=lace/ foo.sty
          ⇒ /another/place/foo.sty

     The purpose of these rules is to make it convenient to find results
     only within a particular area of the tree.  For instance, a given
     script named ‘foo.lua’ might exist within both
     ‘texmf-dist/scripts/pkg1/’ and ‘texmf-dist/scripts/pkg2/’.  By
     specifying, say, ‘--subdir=/pkg1’, you can be sure of getting the
     one you are interested in.

     We only match at the end because a site might happen to install TeX
     in ‘/some/coincidental/pkg1/path/’, and we wouldn't want to match
     ‘texmf-dist/scripts/pkg2/’ that when searching for ‘/pkg1’.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Specially-recognized files,  Next: Auxiliary tasks,  Prev: Path searching options,  Up: Invoking kpsewhich

5.6.2 Specially-recognized files for ‘kpsewhich’
------------------------------------------------

‘kpsewhich’ recognizes a few special filenames on the command line and
defaults to using the 'known' file formats for them, merely to save the
time and trouble of specifying the format.  This is only a feature of
‘kpsewhich’; when using the Kpathsea library itself, none of these
special filenames are recognized, and it's still up to the caller to
specify the desired format.

   Here is the list of special filenames to ‘kpsewhich’, along with
their corresponding format:

‘config.ps’
     ‘dvips config’

‘dvipdfmx.cfg’
     ‘other text files’

‘fmtutil.cnf’
     ‘web2c files’

‘glyphlist.txt’
     ‘map’

‘mktex.cnf’
     ‘web2c files’

‘pdfglyphlist.txt’
     ‘map’

‘pdftex.cfg’
     ‘pdftex config’ (although ‘pdftex.cfg’ is not used any more; look
     for the file ‘pdftexconfig.tex’ instead.)

‘texmf.cnf’
     ‘cnf’

‘XDvi’
     ‘other text files’

   A user-specified format will override the above defaults.

   Another reference for information about TeX's many special files is
‘tcfmgr.map’, found in ‘texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr.map’, which records
various information about the above configuration files (among others).


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Auxiliary tasks,  Next: Standard options,  Prev: Specially-recognized files,  Up: Invoking kpsewhich

5.6.3 Auxiliary tasks
---------------------

Kpsewhich provides some features in addition to path lookup as such:

‘--debug=NUM’
     Set debugging options to NUM.  *Note Debugging::.

‘--expand-braces=STRING’
     Output variable, tilde, and brace expansion of STRING, which is
     assumed to be a single path element.  *Note Path expansion::.

‘--expand-path=STRING’
     Output the complete expansion of STRING, with each element
     separated by the usual path separator on the current system (‘;’ on
     Windows, ‘:’ otherwise).  This may be useful to construct a custom
     search path for a format not otherwise supported.  To retrieve the
     search path for a format that is already supported, see
     ‘--show-path’.

     Nonexistent directories are culled from the output:

          $ kpsewhich --expand-path '/tmp'
          ⇒ /tmp
          $ kpsewhich --expand-path '/nonesuch'
          ⇒

     For one-shot uses of an arbitrary (not built in to Kpathsea) path,
     see ‘--path’ (*note Path searching options::).

‘--expand-var=STRING’
     Output the variable and tilde expansion of STRING.  For example,
     with the usual ‘texmf.cnf’, ‘kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMF'’
     returns the TeX system hierarchy root(s).  *Note Path expansion::.
     The specified STRING can contain anything, though, not just
     variable references.  This calls ‘kpse_var_expand’ (*note
     Programming with config files::).

‘--help-formats’
     Output information about each supported format (*note Supported
     file formats::), including the names and abbreviations, variables
     looked for, and the original path.

‘--safe-extended-in-name=NAME’
‘--safe-extended-out-name=NAME’
     As with ‘--safe-in-name’ and ‘--safe-out-name’ (next item), but
     also allow files under the variables ‘TEXMFVAR’ and ‘TEXMFSYSVAR’
     (*note Calling sequence::).

‘--safe-in-name=NAME’
‘--safe-out-name=NAME’
     Exit successfully if NAME is safe to open for reading or writing,
     respectively, else unsuccessfully.  No errors are output.  These
     tests take account of the related Kpathsea configuration settings
     (*note Calling sequence::).

‘--show-path=NAME’
     Show the path that would be used for file lookups of file type
     NAME.  Either a filename extension (‘pk’, ‘.vf’, etc.)  or an
     integer can be used, just as with ‘--format’, described in the
     previous section.

‘--var-brace-value=VARIABLE’
     Like ‘--var-value’ (next), but also expands ‘{...}’ constructs.
     (*note Brace expansion::).  Thus, the value is assumed to possibly
     be several path elements, and ‘~’ is expanded at the beginning of
     each.  The path separator is changed to that of the current system
     in the expansion.

     Example: ‘FOO='.;~' kpsewhich --var-brace-value=FOO’ outputs (on a
     Unix-ish system) ‘.:/home/karl’, supposing the latter is the
     current user's home directory.  Note that the ‘;’ in the source
     value, as commonly used in ‘texmf.cnf’, has changed to a ‘:’, as
     the normal path separator on the current system.  On a Windows-ish
     system, the ‘;’ would remain.

‘--var-value=VARIABLE’
     Outputs the value of VARIABLE (a simple identifier like
     ‘TEXMFDIST’, with no ‘$’ or other constructs), expanding ‘$’ (*note
     Variable expansion::) and ‘~’ (*note Tilde expansion::) constructs
     in the value.  ‘~’ expansion happens at the beginning of the
     overall value and at the beginning of a variable expansion, but not
     arbitrarily within the string.  Braces are not expanded.

     Example: ‘--var-value=texmf_casefold_search’ outputs (if the
     default is not changed) ‘1’.

     Example to contrast with ‘--var-brace-value’: ‘FOO='.;~' kpsewhich
     --var-value=FOO’ outputs ‘.;~’, i.e., the same as the input value,
     on all systems.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Standard options,  Prev: Auxiliary tasks,  Up: Invoking kpsewhich

5.6.4 Standard options
----------------------

Kpsewhich accepts the standard GNU options:

   • ‘--help’ prints a help message on standard output and exits
     successfully.

   • ‘--version’ prints the Kpathsea version number and exits
     successfully.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: TeX support,  Next: Programming,  Prev: Path searching,  Up: Top

6 TeX support
*************

Although the basic features in Kpathsea can be used for any type of path
searching, it came about, as usual, with a specific application in mind:
I wrote Kpathsea specifically for TeX system programs.  I had been
struggling with the programs I was using (Dvips, Xdvi, and TeX itself)
having slightly different notions of how to specify paths; and debugging
was painful, since no code was shared.

   Therefore, Kpathsea provides some TeX-specific formats and features.
Indeed, many of the purportedly generic path searching features were
provided because they seemed useful in that conTeXt (font lookup,
particularly).

   Kpathsea provides a standard way to search for files of any of the
supported file types; glyph fonts are a bit different than all the rest.
Searches are based solely on names of files, not their contents--if a GF
file is (mis)named ‘cmr10.600pk’, it will be found as a PK file.

* Menu:

* Supported file formats::      File types Kpathsea knows about.
* File lookup::                 Searching for most kinds of files.
* Glyph lookup::                Searching for bitmap fonts.
* Suppressing warnings::        Avoiding warnings via TEX_HUSH.
* mktex scripts::               Generating files at runtime.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Supported file formats,  Next: File lookup,  Up: TeX support

6.1 Supported file formats
==========================

Kpathsea has support for a number of file types.  Each file type has a
list of environment and config file variables that are checked to define
the search path, and most have a default suffix that plays a role in
finding files (see the next section).  Some also define additional
suffixes, and/or a program to be run to create missing files on the fly.

   Since environment variables containing periods, such as
‘TEXINPUTS.latex’, are not allowed on some systems, Kpathsea looks for
environment variables with an underscore, e.g., ‘TEXINPUTS_latex’ (*note
Config files::).

   The following table lists the above information.  You can also get
the list by giving the ‘--help-formats’ option to ‘kpsewhich’ (*note
Auxiliary tasks::).

‘afm’
     (Adobe font metrics, *note (dvips)Metric files::) ‘AFMFONTS’;
     suffix ‘.afm’.

‘base’
     (Metafont memory dump, *note (web2c)Memory dumps::) ‘MFBASES’,
     ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.base’.

‘bib’
     (BibTeX bibliography source, *note (web2c)bibtex invocation::)
     ‘BIBINPUTS’, ‘TEXBIB’; suffix ‘.bib’.

‘bltxml’
     (BibLaTeXML bibliography files for Biber,
     <https://ctan.org/pkg/biber>) ‘BLTXMLINPUTS’ suffix ‘.bltxml’.

‘bst’
     (BibTeX style, *note Basic BibTeX style files: (web2c)Basic BibTeX
     style files.) ‘BSTINPUTS’; suffix ‘.bst’.

‘clua’
     (dynamic libraries for Lua, <https://ctan.org/pkg/luatex>)
     ‘CLUAINPUTS’ suffixes ‘.dll’ and ‘.so’.

‘cmap’
     (character map files) ‘CMAPFONTS’; suffix ‘.cmap’.

‘cnf’
     (Runtime configuration files, *note Config files::) ‘TEXMFCNF’;
     suffix ‘.cnf’.

‘cweb’
     (CWEB input files) ‘CWEBINPUTS’; suffixes ‘.w’, ‘.web’; additional
     suffix ‘.ch’.

‘dvips config’
     (Dvips ‘config.*’ files, such as ‘config.ps’, *note (dvips)Config
     files::) ‘TEXCONFIG’.

‘enc files’
     (encoding vectors) ‘ENCFONTS’; suffix ‘.enc’.

‘fmt’
     (TeX memory dump, *note (web2c)Memory dumps::) ‘TEXFORMATS’,
     ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.fmt’.

‘font cid map’
     (CJK mapping) ‘FONTCIDMAPS’ suffix ‘.cid’.

‘font feature files’
     (primarily for OpenType font features) ‘FONTFEATURES’ suffix
     ‘.fea’.

‘gf’
     (generic font bitmap, *note (dvips)Glyph files::) ‘PROGRAMFONTS’,
     ‘GFFONTS’, ‘GLYPHFONTS’, ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘gf’.

‘graphic/figure’
     (Encapsulated PostScript figures, *note (dvips)PostScript
     figures::) ‘TEXPICTS’, ‘TEXINPUTS’; additional suffixes: ‘.eps’,
     ‘.epsi’.

‘ist’
     (makeindex style files) ‘TEXINDEXSTYLE’, ‘INDEXSTYLE’; suffix
     ‘.ist’.

‘lig files’
     (ligature definition files) ‘LIGFONTS’; suffix ‘.lig’.

‘ls-R’
     (Filename databases, *note Filename database::) ‘TEXMFDBS’.

‘lua’
     (Lua scripts, <https://ctan.org/pkg/luatex>) ‘LUAINPUTS’ suffixes
     ‘.lua’, ‘.luatex’, ‘.luc’, ‘.luctex’, ‘.texlua’, ‘.texluc’, ‘.tlu’.

‘map’
     (Fontmaps, *note Fontmap::) ‘TEXFONTMAPS’; suffix ‘.map’.

‘mem’
     (MetaPost memory dump, *note (web2c)Memory dumps::) ‘MPMEMS’,
     ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.mem’.

‘MetaPost support’
     (MetaPost support files, used by DMP; *note (web2c)dmp
     invocation::) ‘MPSUPPORT’.

‘mf’
     (Metafont source, *note (web2c)mf invocation::) ‘MFINPUTS’; suffix
     ‘.mf’; dynamic creation program: ‘mktexmf’.

‘mfpool’
     (Metafont program strings, *note (web2c)pooltype invocation::)
     ‘MFPOOL’, ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.pool’.

‘mft’
     (‘MFT’ style file, *note (web2c)mft invocation::) ‘MFTINPUTS’;
     suffix ‘.mft’.

‘misc fonts’
     (font-related files that don't fit the other categories)
     ‘MISCFONTS’

‘mlbib’
     (MlBibTeX bibliography source) ‘MLBIBINPUTS’, ‘BIBINPUTS’,
     ‘TEXBIB’; suffixes ‘.mlbib’, ‘.mlbib’.

‘mlbst’
     (MlBibTeX style) ‘MLBSTINPUTS’, ‘BSTINPUTS’; suffixes ‘.mlbst’,
     ‘.bst’.

‘mp’
     (MetaPost source, *note (web2c)mpost invocation::) ‘MPINPUTS’;
     suffix ‘.mp’.

‘mppool’
     (MetaPost program strings, *note (web2c)pooltype invocation::)
     ‘MPPOOL’, ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.pool’.

‘ocp’
     (Omega compiled process files) ‘OCPINPUTS’;
     suffix ‘.ocp’; dynamic creation program: ‘MakeOmegaOCP’.

‘ofm’
     (Omega font metrics) ‘OFMFONTS’, ‘TEXFONTS’;
     suffixes ‘.ofm’, ‘.tfm’; dynamic creation program: ‘MakeOmegaOFM’.

‘opentype fonts’
     (OpenType fonts) ‘OPENTYPEFONTS’.

‘opl’
     (Omega property lists) ‘OPLFONTS’, ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘.opl’.

‘otp’
     (Omega translation process files) ‘OTPINPUTS’; suffix ‘.otp’.

‘ovf’
     (Omega virtual fonts) ‘OVFFONTS’, ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘.ovf’.

‘ovp’
     (Omega virtual property lists) ‘OVPFONTS’, ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix
     ‘.ovp’.

‘pdftex config’
     (PDFTeX-specific configuration files) ‘PDFTEXCONFIG’.

‘pk’
     (packed bitmap fonts, *note (dvips)Glyph files::) ‘PROGRAMFONTS’
     (PROGRAM being ‘XDVI’, etc.), ‘PKFONTS’, ‘TEXPKS’, ‘GLYPHFONTS’,
     ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘pk’; dynamic creation program: ‘mktexpk’.

‘PostScript header’
     (downloadable PostScript, *note (dvips)Header files::)
     ‘TEXPSHEADERS’, ‘PSHEADERS’; additional suffix ‘.pro’.

‘ris’
     (RIS bibliography files, primarily for Biber,
     <https://ctan.org/pkg/biber>) ‘RISINPUTS’ suffix ‘.ris’.

‘subfont definition files’
     (subfont definition files) ‘SFDFONTS’ suffix ‘.sfd’.

‘tex’
     (TeX source, *note (web2c)tex invocation::) ‘TEXINPUTS’; suffix
     ‘.tex’; additional suffixes: none, because such a list cannot be
     complete; dynamic creation program: ‘mktextex’.

‘TeX system documentation’
     (Documentation files for the TeX system) ‘TEXDOCS’.

‘TeX system sources’
     (Source files for the TeX system) ‘TEXSOURCES’.

‘texmfscripts’
     (Architecture-independent executables distributed in the texmf
     trees) ‘TEXMFSCRIPTS’.

‘texpool’
     (TeX program strings, *note (web2c)pooltype invocation::)
     ‘TEXPOOL’, ‘TEXMFINI’; suffix ‘.pool’.

‘tfm’
     (TeX font metrics, *note (dvips)Metric files::) ‘TFMFONTS’,
     ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘.tfm’; dynamic creation program: ‘mktextfm’.

‘Troff fonts’
     (Troff fonts, used by DMP; *note (web2c)DMP invocation::)
     ‘TRFONTS’.

‘truetype fonts’
     (TrueType outline fonts) ‘TTFONTS’; suffixes ‘.ttf’ and ‘.TTF’,
     ‘.ttc’ and ‘.TTC’, ‘.dfont’.

‘type1 fonts’
     (Type 1 PostScript outline fonts, *note (dvips)Glyph files::)
     ‘T1FONTS’, ‘T1INPUTS’, ‘TEXPSHEADERS’, ‘DVIPSHEADERS’; suffixes
     ‘.pfa’, ‘.pfb’.

‘type42 fonts’
     (Type 42 PostScript outline fonts) ‘T42FONTS’.

‘vf’
     (virtual fonts, *note (dvips)Virtual fonts::) ‘VFFONTS’,
     ‘TEXFONTS’; suffix ‘.vf’.

‘web’
     (WEB input files) ‘WEBINPUTS’; suffix ‘.web’; additional suffix
     ‘.ch’.

‘web2c files’
     (files specific to the web2c implementation) ‘WEB2C’.

   There are two special cases, because the paths and environment
variables always depend on the name of the program: the variable name is
constructed by converting the program name to upper case, and then
appending ‘INPUTS’.  Assuming the program is called ‘foo’, this gives us
the following table.

‘other text files’
     (text files used by ‘foo’) ‘FOOINPUTS’.

‘other binary files’
     (binary files used by ‘foo’) ‘FOOINPUTS’.

   If an environment variable by these names are set, the corresponding
‘texmf.cnf’ definition won't be looked at (unless, as usual, the
environment variable value has an extra ‘:’).  *Note Default
expansion::.

   For the font variables, the intent is that:
   • ‘TEXFONTS’ is the default for everything.

   • ‘GLYPHFONTS’ is the default for bitmap (or, more precisely,
     non-metric) files.

   • Each font format has a variable of its own.

   • Each program has its own font override path as well; e.g.,
     ‘DVIPSFONTS’ for Dvipsk.  Again, this is for bitmaps, not metrics.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: File lookup,  Next: Glyph lookup,  Prev: Supported file formats,  Up: TeX support

6.2 File lookup
===============

This section describes how Kpathsea searches for most files (bitmap font
searches are the exception, as described in the next section).

   Here is the search strategy for a file NAME:

  1. If the file format defines default suffixes, and the suffix of NAME
     name is not already a known suffix for that format, try the name
     with each default appended, and use alternative names found in the
     fontmaps if necessary.  Example: given ‘foo.bar’, look for
     ‘foo.bar.tex’.

  2. Search for NAME, and if necessary for alternative names found in
     the fontmaps.  Example: given ‘foo.bar’, we also look for
     ‘foo.bar’.

  3. If the file format defines a program to invoke to create missing
     files, run it (*note mktex scripts::).

   The order in which we search for "suffixed" name (item 1) or the
"as-is" name (item 2) is controlled by the ‘try_std_extension_first’
configuration value.  The default set in ‘texmf.cnf’ is true, since
common suffixes are already recognized: ‘babel.sty’ will only look for
‘babel.sty’, not ‘babel.sty.tex’, regardless of this setting.

   When the suffix is unknown (e.g., ‘foo.bar’), both names are always
tried; the difference is the order in which they are tried.

   ‘try_std_extension_first’ only affects names being looked up which
*already* have an extension.  A name without an extension (e.g., ‘tex
story’) will always have an extension added first.

   This algorithm is implemented in the function ‘kpathsea_find_file’ in
the source file ‘kpathsea/tex-file.c’.  You can watch it in action with
the debugging options (*note Debugging::).


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Glyph lookup,  Next: Suppressing warnings,  Prev: File lookup,  Up: TeX support

6.3 Glyph lookup
================

This section describes how Kpathsea searches for a bitmap font in GF or
PK format (or either) given a font name (e.g., ‘cmr10’) and a resolution
(e.g., 600).

   Here is an outline of the search strategy (details in the sections
below) for a file NAME at resolution DPI.  The search stops at the first
successful lookup.

  1. Look for an existing file NAME.DPIFORMAT in the specified
     format(s).

  2. If NAME is an alias for a file F in the fontmap file
     ‘texfonts.map’, look for F.DPI.

  3. Run an external program (typically named ‘mktexpk’) to generate the
     font (*note mktex scripts::)

  4. Look for FALLBACK.DPI, where FALLBACK is some last-resort font
     (typically ‘cmr10’).

   This is implemented in ‘kpathsea_find_glyph’ in
‘kpathsea/tex-glyph.c’.

* Menu:

* Basic glyph lookup::          Features common to all glyph lookups.
* Fontmap::                     Aliases for fonts.
* Fallback font::               Resolutions and fonts of last resort.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Basic glyph lookup,  Next: Fontmap,  Up: Glyph lookup

6.3.1 Basic glyph lookup
------------------------

When Kpathsea looks for a bitmap font NAME at resolution DPI in a format
FORMAT, it first checks each directory in the search path for a file
‘NAME.DPIFORMAT’; for example, ‘cmr10.600pk’.  Kpathsea looks for a PK
file first, then a GF file.

   If that fails, Kpathsea looks for ‘dpiDPI/NAME.FORMAT’; for example,
‘dpi600/cmr10.pk’.  This is how fonts are typically stored on
filesystems (such as DOS) that permit only three-character extensions.

   If that fails, Kpathsea looks for a font with a close-enough DPI.
"Close enough" is defined by the macro ‘KPSE_BITMAP_TOLERANCE’ in
‘kpathsea/tex-glyph.h’ to be ‘DPI / 500 + 1’.  This is slightly more
than the 0.2% minimum allowed by the DVI standard
(<CTAN:/dviware/driv-standard/level-0>).


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Fontmap,  Next: Fallback font,  Prev: Basic glyph lookup,  Up: Glyph lookup

6.3.2 Fontmap
-------------

If a bitmap font or metric file is not found with the original name (see
the previous section), Kpathsea looks through any “fontmap” files for an
“alias” for the original font name.  These files are named
‘texfonts.map’ and searched for along the ‘TEXFONTMAPS’
environment/config file variable.  All ‘texfonts.map’ files that are
found are read; earlier definitions override later ones.

   This feature is intended to help in two respects:

  1. An alias name is limited in length only by available memory, not by
     your filesystem.  Therefore, if you want to ask for ‘Times-Roman’
     instead of ‘ptmr’, you can (you get ‘ptmr8r’).

  2. A few fonts have historically had multiple names: specifically,
     LaTeX's "circle font" has variously been known as ‘circle10’,
     ‘lcircle10’, and ‘lcirc10’.  Aliases can make all the names
     equivalent, so that it no longer matters what the name of the
     installed file is; TeX documents will find their favorite name.

   The format of fontmap files:

   • Comments start with the last ‘%’ on a line and continue to the end
     of the line.  (This provides for names that include a %,
     ill-advised as that may be.)

   • Blank lines are ignored.

   • Each nonblank line is broken up into a series of “words”: a
     sequence of non-whitespace characters.

   • If the first word is ‘include’, the second word is used as a
     filename, and it is searched for and read.

   • Otherwise, the first word on each line is the true filename;

   • the second word is the alias;

   • subsequent words are ignored.

   If an alias has an extension, it matches only those files with that
extension; otherwise, it matches anything with the same root, regardless
of extension.  For example, an alias ‘foo.tfm’ matches only when
‘foo.tfm’ is being searched for; but an alias ‘foo’ matches ‘foo.vf’,
‘foo.600pk’, etc.

   As an example, here is an excerpt from the ‘texfonts.map’ in the
Web2c distribution.  It makes the old and new names of the LaTeX circle
fonts equivalent.

     circle10        lcircle10
     circle10        lcirc10
     lcircle10       circle10
     lcircle10       lcirc10
     lcirc10         circle10
     lcirc10         lcircle10
     ...

   Fontmaps are implemented in the file ‘kpathsea/fontmap.c’.  The
Fontname distribution has much more information on font naming (*note
(fontname)::).


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Fallback font,  Prev: Fontmap,  Up: Glyph lookup

6.3.3 Fallback font
-------------------

If a bitmap font cannot be found or created at the requested size,
Kpathsea looks for the font at a set of “fallback resolutions”.  You
specify these resolutions as a colon-separated list (like search paths).
Kpathsea looks first for a program-specific environment variable (e.g.,
‘DVIPSSIZES’ for Dvipsk), then the environment variable ‘TEXSIZES’, then
a default specified at compilation time (the Make variable
‘default_texsizes’).  You can set this list to be empty if you prefer to
find fonts at their stated size or not at all.

   Finally, if the font cannot be found even at the fallback
resolutions, Kpathsea looks for a fallback font, typically ‘cmr10’.
Programs must enable this feature by calling ‘kpathsea_init_prog’ (*note
Calling sequence::); the default is no fallback font.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Suppressing warnings,  Next: mktex scripts,  Prev: Glyph lookup,  Up: TeX support

6.4 Suppressing warnings
========================

Kpathsea provides a way to suppress selected usually-harmless warnings;
this is useful at large sites where most users are not administrators,
and thus the warnings are merely a source of confusion, not a help.  To
do this, you set the environment variable or configuration file value
‘TEX_HUSH’ to a colon-separated list of values.  Here are the
possibilities:

‘all’
     Suppress everything possible.

‘checksum’
     Suppress mismatched font checksum warnings.

‘lostchar’
     Suppress warnings when a character is missing from a font that a
     DVI or VF file tries to typeset.

‘none’
     Don't suppress any warnings.

‘readable’
     Suppress warnings about attempts to access a file whose permissions
     render it unreadable.

‘special’
     Suppresses warnings about an unimplemented or unparsable ‘\special’
     command.

‘tex-hush.c’ defines the function that checks the variable value.  Each
driver implements its own checks where appropriate.


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6.5 ‘mktex’ scripts
===================

If Kpathsea cannot otherwise find a file, for some file types it is
configured by default to invoke an external program to create it
dynamically (*note mktex configuration::).  These are collectively known
as “‘mktex’ scripts”, since most of them are named ‘mktex...’.

   For example, this is useful for fonts (bitmaps, TFM's, and
arbitrarily-sizable Metafont sources such as the Sauter and EC fonts),
since any given document can use fonts never before referenced.
Building all fonts in advance is therefore impractical, if not
impossible.

   It is also useful for the TeX ‘.fmt’ (and Metafont ‘.base’ and
Metapost ‘.mem’ files, *note (Web2c)Memory dumps::), where
pre-generating every format consumes a lot of both time and space.

   The script is passed the name of the file to create and possibly
other arguments, as explained below.  It must echo the full pathname of
the file it created (and nothing else) to standard output; it can write
diagnostics to standard error.

* Menu:

* config: mktex configuration.
* names: mktex script names.
* args: mktex script arguments.


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6.5.1 ‘mktex’ configuration
---------------------------

The list of file types and program names that can run an external
program to create missing files is listed in the next section.  In the
absence of ‘configure’ options specifying otherwise, everything but
‘mktextex’ will be enabled by default.  The ‘configure’ options to
change the defaults are:

     --without-mktexfmt-default
     --without-mktexmf-default
     --without-mktexocp-default
     --without-mktexofm-default
     --without-mktexpk-default
     --without-mktextfm-default
     --with-mktextex-default

   The ‘configure’ setting is overridden if the environment variable or
configuration file value named for the script is set; e.g., ‘MKTEXPK’
(*note mktex script arguments::).

   ‘mktexfmt’ reads a file ‘fmtutil.cnf’, typically located in
‘texmf/web2c/’ to glean its configuration information.  The rest of the
files and features in this section are primarily intended for the font
generation scripts.

   As distributed, all the scripts source a file ‘texmf/web2c/mktex.cnf’
if it exists, so you can override various defaults.  See ‘mktex.opt’,
for instance, which defines the default mode, resolution, some special
directory names, etc.  If you prefer not to change the distributed
scripts, you can simply create ‘mktex.cnf’ with the appropriate
definitions (you do not need to create it if you have nothing to put in
it).  ‘mktex.cnf’ has no special syntax; it's an arbitrary Bourne shell
script.  The distribution contains a sample ‘mktex.cnf’ for you to copy
and modify as you please (it is not installed anywhere).

   In addition, you can configure a number of features with the
‘MT_FEATURES’ variable, which you can define:

   • in ‘mktex.opt’, as just mentioned;

   • by editing the file ‘mktex.opt’, either before ‘make install’ (in
     the source hierarchy) or after (in the installed hierarchy);

   • or in the environment.

   If none of the options below are enabled, ‘mktexpk’, ‘mktextfm’, and
‘mktexmf’ follow the following procedure to decide where fonts should be
installed.  Find the tree where the font's sources are, and test the
permissions of the ‘fonts’ directory of that tree to determine whether
it is writable.  If it is, put the files in the tree in appropriate
locations.  If it isn't writable, see whether the tree is a system tree
(named in ‘SYSTEXMF’).  If so, the ‘VARTEXFONTS’ tree is used.  In all
other cases the working directory is used.

   The ‘appendonlydir’ option is enabled by default.

‘appendonlydir’
     Tell ‘mktexdir’ to create directories append-only, i.e., set their
     sticky bit (*note (coreutils)Mode Structure::).  This feature is
     silently ignored on non-Unix platforms (e.g.  Windows/NT and
     MS-DOS) which don't support similar functionality.  This feature is
     enabled by default.

‘dosnames’
     Use 8.3 names; e.g., ‘dpi600/cmr10.pk’ instead of ‘cmr10.600pk’.
     Note that this feature only affects filenames that would otherwise
     clash with other TeX-related filenames; ‘mktex’ scripts do nothing
     about filenames which exceed the 8+3 MS-DOS limits but remain
     unique when truncated (by the OS) to these limits, and nether do
     the scripts care about possible clashes with files which aren't
     related with TeX. For example, ‘cmr10.600pk’ would clash with
     ‘cmr10.600gf’ and is therefore changed when ‘dosnames’ is in
     effect, but ‘mf.pool’ and ‘mp.base’ don't clash with any
     TeX-related files and are therefore unchanged.

     This feature is turned on by default on MS-DOS. If you do not wish
     ‘dosnames’ to be set on an MS-DOS platform, you need to set the
     ‘MT_FEATURES’ environment variable to a value that doesn't include
     ‘dosnames’.  You can also change the default setting by editing
     ‘mktex.opt’, but only if you use the ‘mktex’ shell scripts; the
     emulation programs don't consult ‘mktex.opt’.

‘fontmaps’
     Instead of deriving the location of a font in the destination tree
     from the location of the sources, the aliases and directory names
     from the Fontname distribution are used.  (*note Introduction:
     (fontname)Top.).

‘nomfdrivers’
     Let mktexpk and mktextfm create metafont driver files in a
     temporary directory.  These will be used for just one metafont run
     and not installed permanently.

‘nomode’
     Omit the directory level for the mode name; this is fine as long as
     you generate fonts for only one mode.

‘stripsupplier’
     Omit the font supplier name directory level.

‘striptypeface’
     Omit the font typeface name directory level.

‘strip’
     Omit the font supplier and typeface name directory levels.  This
     feature is deprecated in favour of ‘stripsupplier’ and
     ‘striptypeface’.

‘varfonts’
     When this option is enabled, fonts that would otherwise be written
     in system texmf tree go to the ‘VARTEXFONTS’ tree instead.  The
     default value in ‘kpathsea/Makefile.in’ is ‘/var/tmp/texfonts’.
     The ‘Linux File System Standard’ recommends ‘/var/tex/fonts’.

     The ‘varfonts’ setting in ‘MT_FEATURES’ is overridden by the
     ‘USE_VARTEXFONTS’ environment variable: if set to ‘1’, the feature
     is enabled, and if set to ‘0’, the feature is disabled.

‘texmfvar’
     Force generated files that would go into a system tree (as defined
     by ‘SYSTEXMF’) into ‘TEXMFVAR’.  Starting with teTeX-3.0, the
     variable ‘TEXMFVAR’ is always set.  The ‘varfonts’ feature takes
     precedence if also set.

     The ‘texmfvar’ setting in ‘MT_FEATURES’ is overridden by the
     ‘USE_TEXMFVAR’ environment variable: if set to ‘1’, the feature is
     enabled, and if set to ‘0’, the feature is disabled.


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6.5.2 ‘mktex’ script names
--------------------------

The following table shows the default name of the script for each of the
file types which support runtime generation.

‘mktexfmt’
     (‘.fmt’, ‘.base’, ‘.mem’) TeX/Metafont/MetaPost formats.  This
     script is also named ‘fmtutil’, and reads ‘fmtutil.cnf’ for
     configuration information.

‘mktexmf’
     (‘.mf’) Metafont input files.

‘mkocp’
     (‘.ocp’) Omega compiled process files.

‘mkofm’
     (‘.ofm’) Omega font metric files.

‘mktexpk’
     (‘pk’) Glyph fonts.

‘mktextex’
     (‘.tex’) TeX input files (disabled by default).

‘mktextfm’
     (‘.tfm’) TFM files.

These names can be overridden by an environment variable specific to the
program; for example, ‘DVIPSMAKEPK’ for Dvipsk.

   If a ‘mktex...’ script fails, the invocation is appended to a file
‘missfont.log’ (by default) in the current directory.  After fixing the
problem, you can then execute the log file to create the missing files.

   If the environment variable ‘TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY’ is set,
‘missfont.log’ is first tried to be written there; if it's not set, the
current directory is tried first.  If that first write fails and the
environment variable or configuration file value ‘TEXMFOUTPUT’ is set,
we try to write ‘missfont.log’ there.  Otherwise nothing is written.

   The base filename ‘missfont.log’ is overridden by the ‘MISSFONT_LOG’
environment variable or configuration file value.


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6.5.3 ‘mktex’ script arguments
------------------------------

The first argument to a ‘mktex’ script is always the name of the file to
be created.

   In the default ‘mktexpk’ implementation, additional arguments may
also be passed:

‘--dpi NUM’
     Sets the resolution of the generated font to NUM.
‘--mfmode NAME’
     Sets the Metafont mode to NAME.
‘--bdpi NUM’
     Sets the "base dpi" for the font.  This must match the mode being
     used.
‘--mag STRING’
     A "magstep" string suitable for the Metafont ‘mag’ variable.  This
     must match the combination of BDPI and DPI being used.
‘--destdir STRING’
     A directory name.  If the directory is absolute, it is used as-is.
     Otherwise, it is appended to the root destination directory set in
     the script.


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7 Programming
*************

This chapter is for programmers who wish to use Kpathsea.  *Note
Introduction::, for the conditions under which you may do so (in short,
it is released under LGPLv2.1 or later).

* Menu:

* Overview: Programming overview.         Introduction.
* Calling sequence::                      Specifics of what to call.
* Safe filenames::                        Only opening allowed files.
* Program-specific files::                How to handle these.
* Config: Programming with config files.  Getting info from texmf.cnf.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Programming overview,  Next: Calling sequence,  Up: Programming

7.1 Programming overview
========================

Aside from this manual, your best source of information is the source to
the programs that use Kpathsea (*note Introduction::).  First, Kpsewhich
is a small utility program whose sole purpose is to exercise the main
path-searching functionality.  Of the drivers, Dviljk is probably the
simplest full application program.  Xdvik adds VF support and the
complication of X resources.  Dvipsk adds the complication of its own
config files.  Web2c is source code I also maintain, so it uses Kpathsea
rather straightforwardly, but is of course complicated by the Web to C
translation.

   When looking at these program sources, you should know that previous
versions of the library had a different programming interface; the
current interface supports re-entrancy.  Historically, the library
function names were prefixed with ‘kpse_’ instead of ‘kpathsea_’, and
they did not need an instance variable as first argument.  This change
was made in 2009.  The old functions will never disappear, and can
reliably continue to be used when they suffice, as they do for the
programs above.  The main application using the re-entrant API is the
MetaPost library used by MetaPost and LuaTeX.

   Beyond these examples, the ‘.h’ files in the Kpathsea source describe
the interfaces and functionality (and of course the ‘.c’ files define
the actual routines, which are the ultimate documentation).
‘pathsearch.h’ declares the basic searching routine.  ‘tex-file.h’ and
‘tex-glyph.h’ define the interfaces for looking up particular kinds of
files.  In view of the way the headers depend on each other, it is
recommended to use ‘#include <kpathsea/kpathsea.h>’, which includes
every Kpathsea header.

   If you want to include only specific headers, you should still
consider including ‘kpathsea/config.h’ before including any other
Kpathsea header, as it provides symbols used in the other headers;
‘kpathsea/config.h’ includes ‘kpathsea/c-auto.h’, which is generated by
Autoconf.

   The library provides no way for an external program to register new
file types: ‘tex-file.[ch]’ must be modified to do this.  For example,
Kpathsea has support for looking up Dvips config files, even though no
program other than Dvips is likely to ever want to do so.  I felt this
was acceptable, since along with new file types should also come new
defaults in ‘texmf.cnf’ (and its descendant ‘paths.h’), since it's
simplest for users if they can modify one configuration file for all
kinds of paths.

   Kpathsea does not parse any formats itself; it barely opens any
files.  Its primary purpose is to return filenames.  The GNU font
utilities package contains libraries to read TFM, GF, and PK files, as
do the programs above, of course.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Calling sequence,  Next: Safe filenames,  Prev: Programming overview,  Up: Programming

7.2 Calling sequence
====================

The typical way to use Kpathsea in your program goes something like
this:

  1. Call ‘kpathsea_new’ to create a new library instance.  This
     variable must be passed as the first argument to all the following
     library functions.  The rest of this manual will be using ‘kpse’ as
     a placeholder for the name of this variable.

  2. Call ‘kpathsea_set_program_name’ with ‘argv[0]’ as the second
     argument; the third argument is a string or ‘NULL’.  The third
     argument is used by Kpathsea as the program name for the ‘.PROGRAM’
     feature of config files (*note Config files::).  If the third
     argument is ‘NULL’, the value of the second argument is used.  This
     function must be called before any other use of the Kpathsea
     library.

     ‘kpathsea_set_program_name’ always sets the variables
     ‘kpse->invocation_name’ and ‘kpse->invocation_short_name’.  These
     variables are used in the error message macros defined in
     ‘kpathsea/lib.h’.  It sets the variable ‘kpse->program_name’ to the
     program name it uses.

     It also initializes debugging options based on the environment
     variable ‘KPATHSEA_DEBUG’ (if that is set).

     Finally, it sets the environment variables ‘SELFAUTOLOC’,
     ‘SELFAUTODIR’ and ‘SELFAUTOPARENT’ to the location, parent and
     grandparent directory of the executable, removing ‘.’ and ‘..’ path
     elements and resolving symbolic links.  These are used in the
     default configuration file to allow people to invoke TeX from
     anywhere.  You can use ‘kpsewhich --expand-var=\$SELFAUTOLOC’,
     etc., to see the values.

  3. Set debugging options.  *Note Debugging::.  If your program doesn't
     have a debugging option already, you can define one and set
     ‘kpse->debug’ to the number that the user supplies (as in Dviljk
     and Web2c), or you can just omit this altogether (users can always
     set the ‘KPATHSEA_DEBUG’ environment variable).  If you do have
     runtime debugging already, you need to merge Kpathsea's options
     with yours (as in Dvipsk and Xdvik).

  4. If your program has its own configuration files that can define
     search paths, you should assign those paths to the ‘client_path’
     member in the appropriate element of the ‘kpse->format_info’ array.
     (This array is indexed by file type; see ‘tex-file.h’.)  See
     ‘resident.c’ in Dvipsk for an example.

  5. Call ‘kpathsea_init_prog’ (see ‘proginit.c’).  It's useful for the
     DVI drivers, at least, but for other programs it may be simpler to
     extract the parts of it that actually apply.  This does not
     initialize any paths, it just looks for (and sets) certain
     environment variables and other random information.  Search paths
     are always initialized at the first call to find a file of a given
     type, not requiring an explicit initialization call; this
     eliminates much useless work, e.g., initializing the BibTeX search
     paths in a DVI driver.

  6. The routine to actually find a file of type FORMAT is
     ‘kpathsea_find_file’.  You can call ‘kpathsea_find_file’ after
     doing only the first and second of the initialization steps
     above--Kpathsea automatically reads the ‘texmf.cnf’ generic config
     files, looks for environment variables, and does expansions at the
     first lookup.

  7. To find PK and/or GF bitmap fonts, the routine is
     ‘kpathsea_find_glyph’, defined in ‘tex-glyph.h’.  This returns a
     structure in addition to the resultant filename, because fonts can
     be found in so many ways.  See the documentation in the source.

  8. Before opening a file, especially for writing, you should check if
     the filename is acceptable.  See the next section (*note Safe
     filenames::).

  9. To actually open a file, not just return a filename, call
     ‘kpathsea_open_file’.  This function takes the name to look up and
     a Kpathsea file format as arguments, and returns the usual ‘FILE
     *’.  It always assumes the file must exist, and thus will search
     the disk if necessary (unless the search path specified ‘!!’,
     etc.).  In other words, if you are looking up a VF or some other
     file that need not exist, don't use this.

  10. To close the Kpathsea library instance you are using, call
     ‘kpathsea_finish’.  This function closes any open log files and
     frees the memory used by the instance.

   Kpathsea also provides many utility routines.  Some are generic: hash
tables, memory allocation, string concatenation and copying, string
lists, reading input lines of arbitrary length, etc.  Others are
filename-related: default path, tilde, and variable expansion, ‘stat’
calls, etc.

   The ‘c-*.h’ header files can also help your program adapt to many
different systems.  You will almost certainly want to use Autoconf and
probably Automake for configuring and building your software if you use
Kpathsea; I strongly recommend using Autoconf and Automake regardless.
They are available from <https://gnu.org/software>.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Safe filenames,  Next: Program-specific files,  Prev: Calling sequence,  Up: Programming

7.3 Safe filenames
==================

*Note Security::, for some general security considerations with the TeX
system.

   In the implementation, the main security feature to disallow writing
to potentially dangerous files is a configuration variable
‘openout_any’.  It specifies one of three levels:

   • When set to ‘a’ (for "any"), no restrictions are imposed.

   • When is set to ‘r’ (for "restricted"), filenames beginning with ‘.’
     are disallowed (except ‘.tex’, because LaTeX needs it).

   • When set to ‘p’ (for "paranoid"), additional restrictions are
     imposed.

       1. First, an absolute filename must refer to a file in (or in a
          subdirectory of) either the ‘TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY’
          environment variable or the ‘TEXMFOUTPUT’ environment variable
          or configuration file setting.

       2. LuaTeX uses a so-called "extended" mode, in which the values
          of ‘TEXMFVAR’ and ‘TEXMFSYSVAR’ are also checked for absolute
          filenames.  This is done because, in practice, fundamental
          parts of the LuaLaTeX system (notably ‘luaotfload’) need a
          cache directory, and historically the ‘TEXMF[SYS]VAR’
          variables are what has been used.  We neither recommend nor
          expect any other programs to need this.

       3. Finally, any attempt to go up a directory level is forbidden;
          that is, paths may not contain a ‘..’ component.

   The paranoid setting is the default.  Any program intended to be
safely called from TeX should implement the same measures, one way or
another.  *Note (web2c)Shell escapes::.

   Kpathsea does not resolve ‘..’ components, or symbolic links, to see
if the final result is an acceptable directory; they are simply
forbidden.  That is, Kpathsea merely considers the value as a string,
not looking on the filesystem at all.  (However, if another program
wants to do such resolutions and check the result, that's ok.)

   For backwards compatibility, ‘y’ and ‘1’ are synonyms of ‘a’, while
‘n’ and ‘0’ are synonyms for ‘r’.

   The function ‘kpathsea_out_name_ok’, with a filename as second
argument, returns ‘true’ if that filename is acceptable to be opened for
output or ‘false’ otherwise.  The Kpsewhich program has an option
(‘--safe-out-name’) providing a command line interface for the check.

   For LuaTeX's extended mode, the function is
‘kpathsea_out_name_ok_extended’, and the Kpsewhich option is
‘--safe-extended-out-name’.

   Similarly, the function ‘kpathsea_in_name_ok’ (resp. ‘_extended’,
with a filename as second argument, returns ‘true’ if that filename is
acceptable to be opend for input or ‘false’ otherwise, depending on the
value of the configuration variable ‘openin_any’.  Unfortunately, for
reading, ‘a’ is the default default; too many system directories and
files get involved to make ‘r’ or ‘p’ feasible.

   The functions above write a message to standard error if the usage is
forbidden (so every caller does not have to do so).  Each function has a
‘_silent’ counterpart which does not write the message; this is what
Kpsewhich calls, since messages would be counterproductive in that case.
Thus:

     kpathsea_out_name_ok_silent
     kpathsea_out_name_ok_silent_extended
     kpathsea_in_name_ok_silent
     kpathsea_in_name_ok_silent_extended

   Furthermore, there are ‘kpse_...’ versions of all the above functions
(as usual), with the default library instance implicitly passed as the
first argument.  LuaTeX provides both ‘kpse.*’ and ‘kpathsea.*’
bindings, so it's good to always have both.

   Sorry for the combinatorial explosion, but we hope no further options
will ever be needed.  If so, we'll likely provide a more generic
interface as well as the above.


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7.4 Program-specific files
==========================

Many programs will need to find some configuration files.  Kpathsea
contains some support to make it easy to place them in their own
directories.  The Standard TeX directory structure (*note Introduction:
(tds)Top.), specifies that such files should go into a subdirectory
named after the program, like ‘texmf/ttf2pk’.

   Two formats, ‘kpse_program_text_format’ and
‘kpse_program_binary_format’, use ‘.:$TEXMF/PROGRAM//’ as their
compiled-in search path.  To override this default, you can use the
variable ‘PROGRAMINPUTS’ in the environment and/or ‘texmf.cnf’.  That is
to say, the name of the variable is constructed by converting the name
of the program to upper case, and appending ‘INPUTS’.

   The only difference between these two formats is whether
‘kpathsea_open_file’ will open the files it finds in text or binary
mode.


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7.5 Programming with config files
=================================

You can (and probably should) use the same ‘texmf.cnf’ configuration
file that Kpathsea uses for your program.  This helps installers by
keeping all configuration in one place.

   To retrieve a value for a configuration variable VAR, the best way is
to call ‘kpathsea_var_value’ on the string ‘VAR’.  This will look first
for an environment variable VAR, then a config file value.  The result
will be the value found or ‘NULL’.  This function is declared in
‘kpathsea/variable.h’.  For an example, see the ‘shell_escape’ code in
‘web2c/lib/texmfmp.c’.

   The routine to do full variable and tilde expansion of an arbitrary
string in the context of a search path (as opposed to simply retrieving
a value) is ‘kpathsea_var_expand’, also declared in
‘kpathsea/variable.h’.  However, it's generally only necessary to set
the search path structure components as explained in the previous
section instead of using this directly.  Because of its usage with any
input string, undefined ‘$FOO’ constructs in the argument to
‘kpathsea_var_expand’ are returned literally (‘"$FOO"’), while undefined
‘${FOO}’ constructs are expanded to the empty string.

   If for some reason you want to retrieve a value _only_ from a config
file, not automatically looking for a corresponding environment
variable, call ‘kpathsea_cnf_get’ (declared in ‘kpathsea/cnf.h’) with
the string VAR.

   No initialization calls are needed.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Reporting bugs,  Next: Index,  Prev: Programming,  Up: Top

8 Reporting bugs
****************

If you have problems or suggestions, please report them to
<tex-k@tug.org> using the bug checklist below.

   Please report bugs in the documentation; not only factual errors or
inconsistent behavior, but unclear or incomplete explanations, typos,
wrong fonts, ...

* Menu:

* Bug checklist::       What to include in a good bug report.
* Mailing lists::       Joining the bugs or announcements mailing lists.
* Debugging::           Analyzing runtime problems.
* Logging::             Recording searches.
* Common problems::     When things go wrong.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Bug checklist,  Next: Mailing lists,  Up: Reporting bugs

8.1 Bug checklist
=================

Before reporting a bug, please check below to be sure it isn't already
known (*note Common problems::).

   Bug reports should be sent via electronic mail to <tex-k@tug.org>.

   The general principle is that a good bug report includes all the
information necessary for reproduction.  Therefore, to enable
investigation, your report should include the following:

   • The version number(s) of the program(s) involved, and of Kpathsea
     itself.  You can get the former by giving a sole option ‘--version’
     to the program, and the latter by running ‘kpsewhich --version’.
     The ‘NEWS’ and ‘ChangeLog’ files also contain the version number.

   • The hardware, operating system (including version), compiler, and
     ‘make’ program you are using (the output of ‘uname -a’ is a start
     on the first two, though incomplete).

   • Any options you gave to ‘configure’.  This is recorded in the
     ‘config.status’ files.

     If you are reporting a bug in ‘configure’ itself, it's probably
     system-dependent, and it will be unlikely the maintainers can do
     anything useful if you merely report that thus-and-such is broken.
     Therefore, you need to do some additional work: for some bugs, you
     can look in the file ‘config.log’ where the test that failed should
     appear, along with the compiler invocation and source program in
     question.  You can then compile it yourself by hand, and discover
     why the test failed.  Other ‘configure’ bugs do not involve the
     compiler; in that case, the only recourse is to inspect the
     ‘configure’ shell script itself, or the Autoconf macros that
     generated ‘configure’.

   • The log of all debugging output, if the bug is in path searching.
     You can get this by setting the environment variable
     ‘KPATHSEA_DEBUG’ to ‘-1’ before running the program.  Please look
     at the log yourself to make sure the behavior is really a bug
     before reporting it; perhaps "old" environment variable settings
     are causing files not to be found, for example.

   • The contents of any input files necessary to reproduce the bug.
     For bugs in DVI-reading programs, for example, this generally means
     a DVI file (and any EPS or other files it uses)--TeX source files
     are helpful, but the DVI file is required, because that's the
     actual program input.

   • If you are sending a patch (do so if you can!), please do so in the
     form of a context diff (‘diff -c’) against the original
     distribution source.  Any other form of diff is either not as
     complete or harder for me to understand.  Please also include a
     ‘ChangeLog’ entry.

   • If the bug involved is an actual crash (i.e., core dump), it is
     easy and useful to include a stack trace from a debugger (I
     recommend the GNU debugger GDB (<https://gnu.org/software/gdb>).
     If the cause is apparent (a ‘NULL’ value being dereferenced, for
     example), please send the details along.  If the program involved
     is TeX or Metafont, and the crash is happening at apparently-sound
     code, however, the bug may well be in the compiler, rather than in
     the program or the library (*note TeX or Metafont failing: TeX or
     Metafont failing.).

   • Any additional information that will be helpful in reproducing,
     diagnosing, or fixing the bug.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Mailing lists,  Next: Debugging,  Prev: Bug checklist,  Up: Reporting bugs

8.2 Mailing lists
=================

Web2c and Kpathsea in general are discussed on the mailing list
<tex-k@tug.org>.  You can subscribe and peruse the archives on the web
<https://lists.tug.org/tex-k>.

   You do not need to join to submit a report, nor will it affect
whether you get a response.  Be aware that large data files are
sometimes included in bug reports.  If this is a problem for you, do not
join the list.

   If you are looking for general TeX help, such as how to install a
full TeX system or how to use LaTeX, please see
<https://tug.org/begin.html>.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Debugging,  Next: Logging,  Prev: Mailing lists,  Up: Reporting bugs

8.3 Debugging
=============

Kpathsea provides a number of runtime debugging options, detailed below
by their names and corresponding numeric values.  When the files you
expect aren't being found, the thing to do is enable these options and
examine the output.

   You can set these with some runtime argument (e.g., ‘-d’) to the
program; in that case, you should use the numeric values described in
the program's documentation (which, for Dvipsk and Xdvik, are different
than those below).  It's best to give the ‘-d’ (or whatever) option
first, for maximal output.  Dvipsk and Xdvik have additional
program-specific debugging options as well.

   You can also set the environment variable ‘KPATHSEA_DEBUG’; in this
case, you should use the numbers below.  If you run the program under a
debugger and set the instance variable ‘kpse->debug’, also use the
numbers below.

   In any case, by far the simplest value to use is ‘-1’, which will
turn on all debugging output.  This is usually better than guessing
which particular values will yield the output you need.

   Debugging output always goes to standard error, so you can redirect
it easily.  For example, in Bourne-compatible shells:
     dvips -d -1 ... 2>/tmp/debug

   It is sometimes helpful to run the standalone Kpsewhich utility
(*note Invoking kpsewhich::), instead of the original program.

   In any case, you cannot use the names below; you must always use
somebody's numbers.  (Sorry.)  To set more than one option, just sum the
corresponding numbers.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_STAT (1)’
     Report ‘stat’(2) calls.  This is useful for verifying that your
     directory structure is not forcing Kpathsea to do many additional
     file tests (*note Slow path searching::, and *note Subdirectory
     expansion::).  If you are using an up-to-date ‘ls-R’ database
     (*note Filename database::), this should produce no output unless a
     nonexistent file that must exist is searched for.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_HASH (2)’
     Report lookups in all hash tables: ‘ls-R’ and ‘aliases’ (*note
     Filename database::); font aliases (*note Fontmap::); and config
     file values (*note Config files::).  Useful when expected values
     are not being found, e.g.., file searches are looking at the disk
     instead of using ‘ls-R’.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_FOPEN (4)’
     Report file openings and closings.  Especially useful when your
     system's file table is full, for seeing which files have been
     opened but never closed.  In case you want to set breakpoints in a
     debugger: this works by redefining ‘fopen’ (‘fclose’) to be
     ‘kpse_fopen_trace’ (‘kpse_fclose_trace’).

‘KPSE_DEBUG_PATHS (8)’
     Report general path information for each file type Kpathsea is
     asked to search.  This is useful when you are trying to track down
     how a particular path got defined--from ‘texmf.cnf’, ‘config.ps’,
     an environment variable, the compile-time default, etc.  This is
     the contents of the ‘kpse_format_info_type’ structure defined in
     ‘tex-file.h’.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_EXPAND (16)’
     Report the directory list corresponding to each path element
     Kpathsea searches.  This is only relevant when Kpathsea searches
     the disk, since ‘ls-R’ searches don't look through directory lists
     in this way.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_SEARCH (32)’
     Report on each file search: the name of the file searched for, the
     path searched in, whether or not the file must exist (when drivers
     search for ‘cmr10.vf’, it need not exist), and whether or not we
     are collecting all occurrences of the file in the path (as with,
     e.g., ‘texmf.cnf’ and ‘texfonts.map’), or just the first (as with
     most lookups).  This can help you correlate what Kpathsea is doing
     with what is in your input file.

‘KPSE_DEBUG_VARS (64)’
     Report the value of each variable Kpathsea looks up.  This is
     useful for verifying that variables do indeed obtain their correct
     values.

‘GSFTOPK_DEBUG (128)’
     Activates debugging printout specific to ‘gsftopk’ program.

‘MAKETEX_DEBUG (512)’
     If you use the optional ‘mktex’ programs instead of the traditional
     shell scripts, this will report the name of the site file
     (‘mktex.cnf’ by default) which is read, directories created by
     ‘mktexdir’, the full path of the ‘ls-R’ database built by
     ‘mktexlsr’, font map searches, ‘MT_FEATURES’ in effect, parameters
     from ‘mktexnam’, filenames added by ‘mktexupd’, and some subsidiary
     commands run by the programs.

‘MAKETEX_FINE_DEBUG (1024)’
     When the optional ‘mktex’ programs are used, this will print
     additional debugging info from functions internal to these
     programs.

   Debugging output from Kpathsea is always written to standard error,
and begins with the string ‘kdebug:’.  (Except for hash table buckets,
which just start with the number, but you can only get that output
running under a debugger.  See comments at the ‘hash_summary_only’
variable in ‘kpathsea/db.c’.)


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Logging,  Next: Common problems,  Prev: Debugging,  Up: Reporting bugs

8.4 Logging
===========

Kpathsea can record the time and filename found for each successful
search.  This may be useful in finding good candidates for deletion when
your filesystem is full, or in discovering usage patterns at your site.

   To do this, define the environment or config file variable
‘TEXMFLOG’.  The value is the name of the file to append the information
to.  The file is created if it doesn't exist, and appended to if it
does.

   Each successful search turns into one line in the log file: two words
separated by a space.  The first word is the time of the search, as the
integer number of seconds since "the epoch", i.e., UTC midnight 1
January 1970 (more precisely, the result of the ‘time’ system call).
The second word is the filename.

   For example, after ‘setenv TEXMFLOG /tmp/log’, running Dvips on
‘story.dvi’ appends the following lines:

     774455887 /usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/config.ps
     774455887 /usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map
     774455888 /usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/texc.pro
     774455888 /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmbx10.600pk
     774455889 /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmsl10.600pk
     774455889 /usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/cmr10.600pk
     774455889 /usr/local/share/texmf/dvips/texc.pro

Only filenames that are absolute are recorded, to preserve some
semblance of privacy.

   In addition to this Kpathsea-specific logging, ‘pdftex’ provides an
option ‘-recorder’ to write the names of all files accessed during a run
to the file ‘BASEFILE.fls’.

   Finally, most systems provide a general tool to output each system
call, thus including opening and closing files.  It might be named
‘strace’, ‘truss’, ‘struss’, or something else.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Common problems,  Prev: Logging,  Up: Reporting bugs

8.5 Common problems
===================

Here are some common problems with configuration, compilation, linking,
execution, ...

* Menu:

* Unable to find files::        If your program can't find fonts (or whatever).
* Slow path searching::         If it takes forever to find anything.
* Unable to generate fonts::    If mktexpk fails.
* TeX or Metafont failing::     Likely compiler bugs.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Unable to find files,  Next: Slow path searching,  Up: Common problems

8.5.1 Unable to find files
--------------------------

If a program complains it cannot find fonts (or other input files), any
of several things might be wrong.  In any case, you may find the
debugging options helpful.  *Note Debugging::.

   • Perhaps you simply haven't installed all the necessary files; the
     basic fonts and input files are distributed separately from the
     programs.  *Note unixtex.ftp::.

   • You have (perhaps unknowingly) told Kpathsea to use search paths
     that don't reflect where the files actually are.  One common cause
     is having environment variables set from a previous installation,
     thus overriding what you carefully set in ‘texmf.cnf’ (*note
     Supported file formats::).  System ‘/etc/profile’ or other files
     such may be the culprit.

   • Your files reside in a directory that is only pointed to via a
     symbolic link, in a leaf directory and is not listed in ‘ls-R’.

     Unfortunately, Kpathsea's subdirectory searching has an
     irremediable deficiency: If a directory D being searched for
     subdirectories contains plain files and symbolic links to other
     directories, but no true subdirectories, D will be considered a
     leaf directory, i.e., the symbolic links will not be followed.
     *Note Subdirectory expansion::.

     You can work around this problem by creating an empty dummy
     subdirectory in D.  Then D will no longer be a leaf, and the
     symlinks will be followed.

     The directory immediately followed by the ‘//’ in the path
     specification, however, is always searched for subdirectories, even
     if it is a leaf.  Presumably you would not have asked for the
     directory to be searched for subdirectories if you didn't want it
     to be.

   • If the fonts (or whatever) don't already exist, ‘mktexpk’ (or
     ‘mktexmf’ or ‘mktextfm’) will try to create them.  If these rather
     complicated shell scripts fail, you'll eventually get an error
     message saying something like ‘Can't find font FONTNAME’.  The best
     solution is to fix (or at least report) the bug in ‘mktexpk’; the
     workaround is to generate the necessary fonts by hand with
     Metafont, or to grab them from a CTAN site (*note unixtex.ftp::).

   • There is a bug in the library.  *Note Reporting bugs::.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Slow path searching,  Next: Unable to generate fonts,  Prev: Unable to find files,  Up: Common problems

8.5.2 Slow path searching
-------------------------

If your program takes an excessively long time to find fonts or other
input files, but does eventually succeed, here are some possible
culprits:

   • Most likely, you just have a lot of directories to search, and that
     takes a noticeable time.  The solution is to create and maintain a
     separate ‘ls-R’ file that lists all the files in your main TeX
     hierarchy.  *Note Filename database::.  Kpathsea always uses ‘ls-R’
     if it's present; there's no need to recompile or reconfigure any of
     the programs.

   • Your recursively-searched directories (e.g.,
     ‘/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts//’), contain a mixture of files and
     directories.  This prevents Kpathsea from using a useful
     optimization (*note Subdirectory expansion::).

     It is best to have only directories (and perhaps a ‘README’) in the
     upper levels of the directory structure, and it's very important to
     have _only_ files, and no subdirectories, in the leaf directories
     where the dozens of TFM, PK, or whatever files reside.

   In any case, you may find the debugging options helpful in
determining precisely when the disk or network is being pounded.  *Note
Debugging::.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Unable to generate fonts,  Next: TeX or Metafont failing,  Prev: Slow path searching,  Up: Common problems

8.5.3 Unable to generate fonts
------------------------------

Metafont outputs fonts in bitmap format, tuned for a particular device
at a particular resolution, in order to allow for the highest-possible
quality of output.  Some DVI-to-whatever programs, such as Dvips, try to
generate these on the fly when they are needed, but this generation may
fail in several cases.

   If ‘mktexpk’ runs, but fails with this error:
     mktexpk: Can't guess mode for NNN dpi devices.
     mktexpk: Use a config file to specify the mode, or update me.
   you need to ensure the resolution and mode match; just specifying the
resolution, as in ‘-D 360’, is not enough.

   You can specify the mode name with the ‘-mode’ option on the Dvips
command line, or in a Dvips configuration file (*note (dvips)Config
files::), such as ‘config.ps’ in your document directory, ‘~/.dvipsrc’
in your home directory, or in a system directory (again named
‘config.ps’).  (Other drivers use other files, naturally.)

   For example, if you need 360dpi fonts, you could include this in a
configuration file:
     D 360
     M lqmed

   If Metafont runs, but generates fonts at the wrong resolution or for
the wrong device, most likely ‘mktexpk’'s built-in guess for the mode is
wrong, and you should override it as above.

   See <https://ctan.org/pkg/modes> for a list of resolutions and mode
names for most devices (additional submissions are welcome).

   If Metafont runs but generates fonts at a resolution of 2602dpi (and
prints out the name of each character as well as just a character
number, and maybe tries to display the characters), then your Metafont
base file probably hasn't been made properly.  (It's using the default
‘proof’ mode, instead of an actual device mode.)  To make a proper
‘plain.base’, assuming the local mode definitions are contained in a
file ‘modes.mf’, run the following command (assuming Unix):

     inimf "plain; input modes; dump"

Then copy the ‘plain.base’ file from the current directory to where the
base files are stored on your system (‘/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c’ by
default), and make a link (either hard or soft) from ‘plain.base’ to
‘mf.base’ in that directory.  *Note (web2c)inimf invocation::.

   If ‘mf’ is a command not found at all by ‘mktexpk’, then you need to
install Metafont (*note unixtex.ftp::).


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: TeX or Metafont failing,  Prev: Unable to generate fonts,  Up: Common problems

8.5.4 TeX or Metafont failing
-----------------------------

If TeX or Metafont get a segmentation fault or otherwise fail while
running a normal input file, the problem is usually a compiler bug
(unlikely as that may sound).  Even if the trip and trap tests are
passed, problems may lurk.  Optimization occasionally causes trouble in
programs other than TeX and Metafont themselves, too.

   For a workaround, if you enabled any optimization flags, it's best to
omit optimization entirely.  In any case, the way to find the facts is
to run the program under the debugger and see where it's failing.

   Also, if you have trouble with a system C compiler, I advise trying
the GNU C compiler.  And vice versa, unfortunately; but in that case I
also recommend reporting a bug to the GCC mailing list; see *note
(gcc)Bugs::.

   To report compiler bugs effectively requires perseverance and
perspicacity: you must find the miscompiled line, and that usually
involves delving backwards in time from the point of error, checking
through TeX's (or whatever program's) data structures.  Good luck.


File: kpathsea.info,  Node: Index,  Prev: Reporting bugs,  Up: Top

Index
*****


* Menu:

* --all:                                 Path searching options.
                                                              (line  12)
* --casefold-search:                     Path searching options.
                                                              (line  19)
* --cnf-line:                            Path searching options.
                                                              (line  28)
* --cnf-line, source for path:           Path sources.        (line   9)
* --color=tty:                           ls-R.                (line  25)
* --debug=NUM:                           Auxiliary tasks.     (line   9)
* --dpi=NUM:                             Path searching options.
                                                              (line  49)
* --engine=NAME:                         Path searching options.
                                                              (line  53)
* --expand-braces=STRING:                Auxiliary tasks.     (line  12)
* --expand-path=STRING:                  Auxiliary tasks.     (line  16)
* --expand-var=STRING:                   Auxiliary tasks.     (line  34)
* --format=NAME:                         Path searching options.
                                                              (line  70)
* --help:                                Standard options.    (line   8)
* --help-formats:                        Auxiliary tasks.     (line  42)
* --interactive:                         Path searching options.
                                                              (line 152)
* --mktex=FILETYPE:                      Path searching options.
                                                              (line 157)
* --mode=STRING:                         Path searching options.
                                                              (line 163)
* --must-exist:                          Path searching options.
                                                              (line 168)
* --no-casefold-search:                  Path searching options.
                                                              (line  19)
* --no-mktex=FILETYPE:                   Path searching options.
                                                              (line 157)
* --path=STRING:                         Path searching options.
                                                              (line 173)
* --progname=NAME:                       Path searching options.
                                                              (line 181)
* --safe-extended-in-name=NAME:          Auxiliary tasks.     (line  48)
* --safe-extended-out-name=NAME:         Auxiliary tasks.     (line  48)
* --safe-in-name=NAME:                   Auxiliary tasks.     (line  54)
* --safe-out-name=NAME:                  Auxiliary tasks.     (line  54)
* --show-path=NAME:                      Auxiliary tasks.     (line  60)
* --subdir=STRING:                       Path searching options.
                                                              (line 186)
* --var-brace-value=VARIABLE:            Auxiliary tasks.     (line  66)
* --var-value=VARIABLE:                  Auxiliary tasks.     (line  80)
* --version:                             Standard options.    (line  11)
* --with-mktextex-default:               mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktexfmt-default:            mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktexmf-default:             mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktexocp-default:            mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktexofm-default:            mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktexpk-default:             mktex configuration. (line  12)
* --without-mktextfm-default:            mktex configuration. (line  12)
* -1 debugging value:                    Debugging.           (line  23)
* -A option to ls:                       ls-R.                (line  39)
* -D NUM:                                Path searching options.
                                                              (line  49)
* -iname, find predicate:                Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line  78)
* -L option to ls:                       ls-R.                (line  44)
* ; translated to : in texmf.cnf:        Config files.        (line  66)
* : may not be ::                        Searching overview.  (line  13)
* :: expansion:                          Default expansion.   (line   6)
* !! and casefolding:                    Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line  57)
* !! in path specifications:             ls-R.                (line  57)
* !! in TEXMFDBS:                        ls-R.                (line  11)
* . directories, ignored:                ls-R.                (line  39)
* . files:                               ls-R.                (line  39)
* .2602gf:                               Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  36)
* .afm:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  22)
* .base:                                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  26)
* .bib:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  30)
* .bltxml:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  34)
* .bst:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  38)
* .cid:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  68)
* .cmap:                                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  46)
* .cnf:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  49)
* .dll:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  42)
* .enc:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  61)
* .eps:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  79)
* .epsi:                                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  79)
* .fea:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  71)
* .fmt:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  64)
* .ist:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  84)
* .lig:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  88)
* .lua:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .luatex:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .luc:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .luctex:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .map:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  98)
* .mem:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 101)
* .mf:                                   Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 109)
* .mft:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 117)
* .mlbib:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 125)
* .mlbst:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 129)
* .mp:                                   Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 133)
* .ocp:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 141)
* .ofm:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 145)
* .opl:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 152)
* .otp:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 155)
* .ovf:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 158)
* .ovp:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 161)
* .pfa:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* .pfb:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* .pk:                                   Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 168)
* .pool:                                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 113)
* .pool <1>:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 137)
* .pool <2>:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 199)
* .pro:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 173)
* .profile, (un)writable by TeX:         Security.            (line  16)
* .PROGNAME qualifier in texmf.cnf:      Config files.        (line  50)
* .ris:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 177)
* .sfd:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 181)
* .so:                                   Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  42)
* .tex:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 184)
* .tex file, included in ls-R:           ls-R.                (line  39)
* .texlua:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .texluc:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .tfm:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 203)
* .tlu:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* .ttc:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 211)
* .ttf:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 211)
* .vf:                                   Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 223)
* .w:                                    Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  53)
* .web:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  53)
* .web <1>:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 227)
* { expansion:                           Brace expansion.     (line   6)
* / may not be /:                        Searching overview.  (line  13)
* /, trailing in home directory:         Tilde expansion.     (line  19)
* //:                                    Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line   6)
* /etc/profile:                          Unable to find files.
                                                              (line  14)
* /etc/profile and aliases:              ls-R.                (line  25)
* /var/tmp/texfonts:                     mktex configuration. (line 113)
* \, line continuation in texmf.cnf:     Config files.        (line  37)
* \openin:                               Searching overview.  (line  31)
* \openout:                              Security.            (line  16)
* \special, suppressing warnings about:  Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  31)
* = omitted in texmf.cnf and misparsing: Config files.        (line  86)
* ~ expansion:                           Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* $ expansion:                           Variable expansion.  (line   6)
* 2602gf:                                Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  36)
* 8.3 filenames, using:                  mktex configuration. (line  68)
* absolute filenames:                    Searching overview.  (line  58)
* access system call:                    Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line  86)
* access warnings:                       Searching overview.  (line  63)
* AFMFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  22)
* aliases for fonts:                     Fontmap.             (line   6)
* aliases, for filenames:                Filename aliases.    (line   6)
* all:                                   Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  13)
* all matches, finding:                  Path searching options.
                                                              (line  12)
* alphabetical order, not:               Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line   6)
* announcement mailing list:             Mailing lists.       (line   6)
* API, re-entrant:                       Programming overview.
                                                              (line  16)
* append-only directories and mktexpk:   Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  19)
* appendonlydir:                         mktex configuration. (line  60)
* Apple filesystem, case-insensitive:    Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* arguments to mktex:                    mktex script arguments.
                                                              (line   6)
* argv[0]:                               Calling sequence.    (line  14)
* autoconf, recommended:                 Calling sequence.    (line  97)
* automounter, and ls-R:                 ls-R.                (line  46)
* auxiliary tasks:                       Auxiliary tasks.     (line   6)
* Bach, Johann Sebastian:                Default expansion.   (line  41)
* backslash-newline:                     Config files.        (line  37)
* basic glyph lookup:                    Basic glyph lookup.  (line   6)
* Berry, Karl:                           History.             (line  12)
* BIBINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  30)
* BIBINPUTS <1>:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 125)
* blank lines, in texmf.cnf:             Config files.        (line  35)
* BLTXMLINPUTS:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  34)
* brace expansion:                       Brace expansion.     (line   6)
* Breitenlohner, Peter:                  History.             (line  78)
* BSTINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  38)
* BSTINPUTS <1>:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 129)
* bug address:                           Reporting bugs.      (line   6)
* bug checklist:                         Bug checklist.       (line   6)
* bug mailing list:                      Mailing lists.       (line   6)
* bugs, reporting:                       Reporting bugs.      (line   6)
* c-*.h:                                 Calling sequence.    (line  97)
* c-auto.h:                              Programming overview.
                                                              (line  35)
* cache of fonts, local:                 Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line   6)
* calling sequence:                      Calling sequence.    (line   6)
* casefolding examples:                  Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line   6)
* casefolding fallback rationale:        Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* casefolding search:                    Casefolding search.  (line   6)
* ChangeLog entry:                       Bug checklist.       (line  52)
* checklist for bug reports:             Bug checklist.       (line   6)
* checksum:                              Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  16)
* circle fonts:                          Fontmap.             (line  19)
* client_path in kpse->format_info:      Calling sequence.    (line  47)
* CLUAINPUTS:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  42)
* CMAPFONTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  46)
* cmr10, as fallback font:               Fallback font.       (line  15)
* cmr10.vf:                              Searching overview.  (line  31)
* cnf.c:                                 Config files.        (line 105)
* cnf.h:                                 Programming with config files.
                                                              (line  27)
* comments, in fontmap files:            Fontmap.             (line  27)
* comments, in texmf.cnf:                Config files.        (line  27)
* comments, making:                      Introduction.        (line  29)
* common features in glyph lookup:       Basic glyph lookup.  (line   6)
* common problems:                       Common problems.     (line   6)
* compilation value, source for path:    Path sources.        (line  23)
* compiler bugs:                         TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line   6)
* compiler bugs, finding:                TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line  21)
* conditions for use:                    Introduction.        (line  32)
* config files:                          Config files.        (line   6)
* config files, for Kpathsea-using programs: Calling sequence.
                                                              (line  47)
* config files, programming with:        Programming with config files.
                                                              (line   6)
* config.h:                              Programming overview.
                                                              (line  35)
* config.log:                            Bug checklist.       (line  24)
* config.ps:                             Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  16)
* config.ps, search path for:            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  57)
* config.status:                         Bug checklist.       (line  27)
* configuration bugs:                    Bug checklist.       (line  27)
* configuration file, source for path:   Path sources.        (line  20)
* configuration of mktex scripts:        mktex configuration. (line   6)
* configure options for mktex scripts:   mktex configuration. (line  12)
* context diff:                          Bug checklist.       (line  52)
* continuation character:                Config files.        (line  37)
* core dumps, reporting:                 Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* crashes of TeX and security:           Security.            (line  43)
* crashes, reporting:                    Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* CWEBINPUTS:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  53)
* database search:                       Searching overview.  (line  17)
* database, for filenames:               Filename database.   (line   6)
* database, format of:                   Database format.     (line   6)
* debug.h:                               Debugging.           (line   6)
* debugger:                              Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* debugging:                             Debugging.           (line   6)
* debugging options, in Kpathsea-using program: Calling sequence.
                                                              (line  39)
* debugging output:                      Debugging.           (line  27)
* default expansion:                     Default expansion.   (line   6)
* default_texsizes:                      Fallback font.       (line   6)
* device, wrong:                         Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  29)
* directories, making append-only:       mktex configuration. (line  61)
* directory permissions:                 Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  34)
* directory structure, for TeX files:    TeX directory structure.
                                                              (line   6)
* disabling mktex scripts:               mktex configuration. (line   6)
* disk search:                           Searching overview.  (line  22)
* disk searching, avoiding:              ls-R.                (line  57)
* disk usage, reducing:                  Logging.             (line   6)
* doc files:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 189)
* DOS compatible names:                  mktex configuration. (line  68)
* dosnames:                              mktex configuration. (line  67)
* dot files:                             ls-R.                (line  39)
* doubled colons:                        Default expansion.   (line   6)
* dpiNNN directories:                    mktex configuration. (line  68)
* DVILJMAKEPK:                           mktex script names.  (line  32)
* DVILJSIZES:                            Fallback font.       (line   6)
* dvipdfmx.cfg:                          Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  19)
* DVIPSFONTS:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 258)
* DVIPSHEADERS:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* DVIPSMAKEPK:                           mktex script names.  (line  32)
* DVIPSSIZES:                            Fallback font.       (line   6)
* dynamic creation of files:             mktex scripts.       (line   6)
* EC fonts, and dynamic source creation: mktex scripts.       (line   6)
* elt-dirs.c:                            Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  41)
* elt-dirs.c <1>:                        Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  48)
* enabling mktex scripts:                mktex configuration. (line   6)
* ENCFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  61)
* engine name:                           Path searching options.
                                                              (line  53)
* environment variable, source for path: Path sources.        (line  12)
* environment variables for TeX:         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line   6)
* environment variables in paths:        Variable expansion.  (line   6)
* environment variables, old:            Unable to find files.
                                                              (line  14)
* epoch, seconds since:                  Logging.             (line  15)
* error message macros:                  Calling sequence.    (line  22)
* examples, of casefolding searches:     Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line   6)
* excessive startup time:                Slow path searching. (line   6)
* expand.c:                              Brace expansion.     (line  26)
* expanding symlinks:                    Calling sequence.    (line  31)
* expansion, default:                    Default expansion.   (line   6)
* expansion, path element:               Searching overview.  (line  49)
* expansion, search path:                Path expansion.      (line   6)
* expansion, subdirectory:               Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line   6)
* expansion, tilde:                      Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* expansion, variable:                   Variable expansion.  (line   6)
* explicitly relative filenames:         Searching overview.  (line  58)
* extensions, filename:                  File lookup.         (line  24)
* externally-built filename database:    Filename database.   (line   6)
* extra colons:                          Default expansion.   (line   6)
* failed mktex... script invocation:     mktex script names.  (line  35)
* fallback font:                         Fallback font.       (line   6)
* fallback resolutions:                  Fallback font.       (line   6)
* FAQ, Kpathsea:                         Common problems.     (line   6)
* Farwell, Matthew:                      Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  22)
* file formats, supported:               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line   6)
* file lookup:                           File lookup.         (line   6)
* file permissions:                      Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  30)
* file types, registering new:           Programming overview.
                                                              (line  41)
* filename aliases:                      Filename aliases.    (line   6)
* filename database:                     Filename database.   (line   6)
* filenames, absolute or explicitly relative: Searching overview.
                                                              (line  58)
* files, unable to find:                 Unable to find files.
                                                              (line   6)
* filesystem search:                     Searching overview.  (line  22)
* filesystem, case-(in)sensitive:        Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* Findutils, GNU package:                Casefolding examples.
                                                              (line  78)
* floating directories:                  Searching overview.  (line  22)
* fmtutil:                               mktex script names.  (line  10)
* fmtutil.cnf:                           Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  22)
* fmtutils.cnf:                          mktex configuration. (line  24)
* font alias files:                      Fontmap.             (line   6)
* font generation failures:              Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line   6)
* font of last resort:                   Fallback font.       (line   6)
* font set, infinite:                    mktex scripts.       (line   6)
* FONTCIDMAPS:                           Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  68)
* FONTFEATURES:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  71)
* fontmap files:                         Fontmap.             (line   6)
* fontmaps:                              mktex configuration. (line  86)
* fontmaps <1>:                          mktex configuration. (line  87)
* fontname:                              mktex configuration. (line  87)
* fontnames, arbitrary length:           Fontmap.             (line  15)
* FOOINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 240)
* FOOINPUTS <1>:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 243)
* fopen, redefined:                      Debugging.           (line  54)
* format of external database:           Database format.     (line   6)
* ftp.cs.stanford.edu:                   unixtex.ftp.         (line  20)
* ftp.tug.org:                           unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* fundamental purpose of Kpathsea:       Introduction.        (line   6)
* gdb, recommended:                      Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* gf:                                    Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  75)
* GFFONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  75)
* globally writable directories:         Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  13)
* glyph lookup:                          Glyph lookup.        (line   6)
* glyph lookup bitmap tolerance:         Basic glyph lookup.  (line  15)
* GLYPHFONTS:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  75)
* GLYPHFONTS <1>:                        Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 168)
* glyphlist.txt:                         Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  25)
* GNU C compiler bugs:                   TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line  16)
* GNU General Public License:            Introduction.        (line  32)
* group-writable directories:            Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  23)
* GSFTOPK_DEBUG (128):                   Debugging.           (line  88)
* hash table buckets, printing:          Debugging.           (line 105)
* hash table routines:                   Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* hash_summary_only variable for debugging: Debugging.        (line 105)
* history of Kpathsea:                   History.             (line   6)
* Hoekwater, Taco:                       History.             (line  78)
* home directories in paths:             Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* HOME, as ~ expansion:                  Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* identifiers, characters valid in:      Config files.        (line  47)
* include fontmap directive:             Fontmap.             (line  36)
* INDEXSTYLE:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  84)
* input lines, reading:                  Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* interactive query:                     Path searching options.
                                                              (line 152)
* interface, not frozen:                 Introduction.        (line  29)
* introduction:                          Introduction.        (line   6)
* kdebug::                               Debugging.           (line 105)
* kdefault.c:                            Default expansion.   (line  48)
* Knuth, Donald E.:                      History.             (line   6)
* Knuth, Donald E., archive of programs by: unixtex.ftp.      (line  20)
* Kpathsea config file, source for path: Path sources.        (line  20)
* kpathsea_cnf_get:                      Programming with config files.
                                                              (line  27)
* KPATHSEA_DEBUG:                        Calling sequence.    (line  28)
* KPATHSEA_DEBUG <1>:                    Debugging.           (line  18)
* kpathsea_find_file:                    File lookup.         (line  37)
* kpathsea_find_file <1>:                Calling sequence.    (line  63)
* kpathsea_find_glyph:                   Glyph lookup.        (line  26)
* kpathsea_find_glyph <1>:               Calling sequence.    (line  70)
* kpathsea_finish:                       Calling sequence.    (line  87)
* kpathsea_in_name_ok:                   Safe filenames.      (line  59)
* kpathsea_in_name_ok_extended:          Safe filenames.      (line  59)
* kpathsea_in_name_ok_silent:            Safe filenames.      (line  72)
* kpathsea_in_name_ok_silent_extended:   Safe filenames.      (line  72)
* kpathsea_init_prog:                    Fallback font.       (line  15)
* kpathsea_init_prog <1>:                Calling sequence.    (line  53)
* kpathsea_new:                          Calling sequence.    (line   9)
* kpathsea_open_file:                    Calling sequence.    (line  79)
* kpathsea_out_name_ok:                  Safe filenames.      (line  50)
* kpathsea_out_name_ok_extended:         Safe filenames.      (line  55)
* kpathsea_out_name_ok_silent:           Safe filenames.      (line  72)
* kpathsea_out_name_ok_silent_extended:  Safe filenames.      (line  72)
* kpathsea_set_program_name:             Calling sequence.    (line  14)
* kpathsea_var_value:                    Programming with config files.
                                                              (line  10)
* KPATHSEA_WARNING:                      Config files.        (line  18)
* kpathsea.h:                            Programming overview.
                                                              (line  26)
* kpse mode of LuaTeX:                   Security.            (line  32)
* KPSE_BITMAP_TOLERANCE:                 Basic glyph lookup.  (line  15)
* KPSE_DEBUG_EXPAND (16):                Debugging.           (line  68)
* KPSE_DEBUG_FOPEN (4):                  Debugging.           (line  53)
* KPSE_DEBUG_HASH (2):                   Debugging.           (line  46)
* KPSE_DEBUG_PATHS (8):                  Debugging.           (line  60)
* KPSE_DEBUG_SEARCH (32):                Debugging.           (line  74)
* KPSE_DEBUG_STAT (1):                   Debugging.           (line  38)
* KPSE_DEBUG_VARS (64):                  Debugging.           (line  83)
* KPSE_DOT expansion:                    KPSE_DOT expansion.  (line   6)
* kpse_format_info_type:                 Debugging.           (line  61)
* kpse->debug:                           Debugging.           (line   6)
* kpse->debug <1>:                       Debugging.           (line  18)
* kpse->debug variable:                  Calling sequence.    (line  39)
* kpse->format_info:                     Calling sequence.    (line  47)
* kpse->invocation_name:                 Calling sequence.    (line  22)
* kpse->invocation_short_name:           Calling sequence.    (line  22)
* kpse->program_name:                    Calling sequence.    (line  22)
* kpsewhich:                             Invoking kpsewhich.  (line   6)
* Kpsewhich, and debugging:              Debugging.           (line  31)
* last-resort font:                      Fallback font.       (line   6)
* lcircle10:                             Fontmap.             (line  19)
* leading colons:                        Default expansion.   (line   6)
* leaf directories wrongly guessed:      Unable to find files.
                                                              (line  21)
* leaf directory trick:                  Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  22)
* license for using the library:         Introduction.        (line  32)
* LIGFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  88)
* lines, reading arbitrary-length:       Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* Linux File System Standard:            mktex configuration. (line 113)
* local cache of fonts:                  Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line   6)
* log file:                              Logging.             (line   6)
* logging successful searches:           Logging.             (line   6)
* lost+found directory:                  Searching overview.  (line  63)
* lostchar:                              Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  19)
* ls-R:                                  Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  91)
* ls-R database file:                    ls-R.                (line   6)
* ls-R, simplest build:                  ls-R.                (line  22)
* LUAINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  94)
* luaotfload:                            Safe filenames.      (line  26)
* LuaTeX and security:                   Security.            (line  32)
* Mac filesystem, case-insensitive:      Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* MacKenzie, David:                      History.             (line  44)
* MacKenzie, David <1>:                  Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  22)
* magic characters:                      Searching overview.  (line  13)
* mailing lists:                         Mailing lists.       (line   6)
* MAKETEX_DEBUG (512):                   Debugging.           (line  91)
* MAKETEX_FINE_DEBUG (1024):             Debugging.           (line 100)
* memory allocation routines:            Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* metafont driver files:                 mktex configuration. (line  93)
* Metafont failures:                     TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line   6)
* Metafont installation:                 Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  51)
* Metafont making too-large fonts:       Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  36)
* Metafont using the wrong device:       Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  29)
* MFBASES:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  26)
* MFINPUTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 109)
* MFPOOL:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 113)
* MFTINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 117)
* MISCFONTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 121)
* mismatched checksum warnings:          Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  17)
* MISSFONT_LOG:                          mktex script names.  (line  45)
* missfont.log:                          mktex script names.  (line  35)
* missing character warnings:            Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  20)
* mkocp:                                 mktex script names.  (line  18)
* mkofm:                                 mktex script names.  (line  21)
* mktex script configuration:            mktex configuration. (line   6)
* mktex script names:                    mktex script names.  (line   6)
* mktex scripts:                         mktex scripts.       (line   6)
* mktex.cnf:                             Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  28)
* mktex.cnf <1>:                         mktex configuration. (line  29)
* mktex.opt:                             mktex configuration. (line  29)
* mktex.opt <1>:                         mktex configuration. (line  39)
* mktexdir:                              mktex configuration. (line  61)
* mktexfmt:                              mktex script names.  (line  10)
* mktexmf:                               mktex script names.  (line  15)
* mktexpk:                               mktex script names.  (line  24)
* mktexpk can't guess mode:              Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  12)
* mktextex:                              mktex script names.  (line  27)
* mktextfm:                              mktex script names.  (line  30)
* MLBIBINPUTS:                           Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 125)
* MLBSTINPUTS:                           Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 129)
* mode directory, omitting:              mktex configuration. (line  98)
* Morgan, Tim:                           History.             (line  12)
* MPINPUTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 133)
* MPMEMS:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 101)
* MPPOOL:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 137)
* MPSUPPORT:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 105)
* MT_FEATURES:                           mktex configuration. (line  39)
* multiple TeX hierarchies:              Brace expansion.     (line  20)
* must exist:                            Searching overview.  (line  31)
* names for mktex scripts:               mktex script names.  (line   6)
* Neumann, Gustaf:                       History.             (line  56)
* NFS and ls-R:                          ls-R.                (line  46)
* nomfdrivers:                           mktex configuration. (line  92)
* nomode:                                mktex configuration. (line  97)
* none:                                  Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  23)
* null pointers, dereferencing:          Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* numeric debugging values:              Debugging.           (line  34)
* obtaining TeX:                         unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* OCPINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 141)
* OFMFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 145)
* online Metafont display, spurious:     Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  36)
* openout_any:                           Safe filenames.      (line   6)
* OPENTYPEFONTS:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 149)
* optimization caveat:                   TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line  12)
* options for debugging:                 Debugging.           (line   6)
* OTPINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 155)
* overview of path searching:            Searching overview.  (line   6)
* overview of programming with Kpathsea: Programming overview.
                                                              (line   6)
* OVFFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 158)
* OVPFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 161)
* paranoid mode, for output files:       Safe filenames.      (line  18)
* path expansion:                        Path expansion.      (line   6)
* path searching:                        Path searching.      (line   6)
* path searching options:                Path searching options.
                                                              (line   6)
* path searching, overview:              Searching overview.  (line   6)
* path searching, standalone:            Invoking kpsewhich.  (line   6)
* path sources:                          Path sources.        (line   6)
* pathsearch.h:                          Programming overview.
                                                              (line  26)
* pc Pascal compiler:                    History.             (line  12)
* pdfglyphlist.txt:                      Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  31)
* pdftex.cfg:                            Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  34)
* PDFTEXCONFIG:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 165)
* pdftexconfig.tex:                      Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  34)
* permission denied:                     Searching overview.  (line  63)
* permissions, directory:                Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  34)
* permissions, file:                     Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  30)
* PKFONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 168)
* plain.base:                            Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  46)
* privacy, semblance of:                 Logging.             (line  32)
* problems, common:                      Common problems.     (line   6)
* proginit.h:                            Calling sequence.    (line  53)
* program-varying paths:                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  12)
* programming overview:                  Programming overview.
                                                              (line   6)
* programming with config files:         Programming with config files.
                                                              (line   6)
* programming with Kpathsea:             Calling sequence.    (line   6)
* programs using the library:            Introduction.        (line  13)
* proof mode:                            Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line  36)
* PSHEADERS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 173)
* pxp Pascal preprocessor:               History.             (line  12)
* quoting variable values:               Variable expansion.  (line  17)
* rationale for casefolding fallback:    Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* re-entrant API:                        Programming overview.
                                                              (line  16)
* readable:                              Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  26)
* reading arbitrary-length lines:        Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* recording successful searches:         Logging.             (line   6)
* relative filenames:                    Searching overview.  (line  58)
* reporting bugs:                        Reporting bugs.      (line   6)
* resident.c:                            Calling sequence.    (line  47)
* resolution, setting:                   Path searching options.
                                                              (line  49)
* resolutions, last-resort:              Fallback font.       (line   6)
* restricted mode, for output files:     Safe filenames.      (line  15)
* retrieving TeX:                        unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* right-hand side of variable assignments: Config files.      (line  57)
* RISINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 177)
* Rokicki, Tom:                          History.             (line  12)
* root user:                             Tilde expansion.     (line  19)
* runtime configuration files:           Config files.        (line   6)
* runtime debugging:                     Debugging.           (line   6)
* Sauter fonts, and dynamic source creation: mktex scripts.   (line   6)
* scripts for file creation:             mktex scripts.       (line   6)
* search path, defined:                  Searching overview.  (line   6)
* search, case-insensitive:              Casefolding search.  (line   6)
* searching for files:                   File lookup.         (line   6)
* searching for glyphs:                  Glyph lookup.        (line   6)
* searching overview:                    Searching overview.  (line   6)
* searching the database:                Searching overview.  (line  17)
* searching the disk:                    Searching overview.  (line  22)
* security considerations:               Security.            (line   6)
* SELFAUTODIR:                           Calling sequence.    (line  31)
* SELFAUTOLOC:                           Calling sequence.    (line  31)
* SELFAUTOPARENT:                        Calling sequence.    (line  31)
* sending patches:                       Bug checklist.       (line  52)
* setgid scripts:                        Global font cache and security.
                                                              (line  23)
* SFDFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 181)
* shell commands, security:              Security.            (line  23)
* shell variables:                       Variable expansion.  (line  17)
* shell_escape, example for code:        Programming with config files.
                                                              (line  10)
* site overrides for mktex...:           mktex configuration. (line  29)
* skeleton TeX directory:                TeX directory structure.
                                                              (line   6)
* slow startup time:                     Slow path searching. (line   6)
* source files:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 192)
* sources for search paths:              Path sources.        (line   6)
* special:                               Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  30)
* st_nlink:                              Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  26)
* ST_NLINK_TRICK:                        Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  38)
* stack trace:                           Bug checklist.       (line  58)
* standalone path searching:             Invoking kpsewhich.  (line   6)
* standard error and debugging output:   Debugging.           (line  27)
* standard options:                      Standard options.    (line   6)
* startup time, excessive:               Slow path searching. (line   6)
* string routines:                       Calling sequence.    (line  91)
* strip:                                 mktex configuration. (line 107)
* stripsupplier:                         mktex configuration. (line 101)
* striptypeface:                         mktex configuration. (line 104)
* subdirectory searching:                Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line   6)
* suffixes, filename:                    File lookup.         (line  24)
* suggestions, making:                   Introduction.        (line  29)
* Sun 2:                                 History.             (line  12)
* supplier directory, omitting:          mktex configuration. (line 102)
* supplier directory, omitting <1>:      mktex configuration. (line 108)
* supported file formats:                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line   6)
* suppressing warnings:                  Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line   6)
* symbolic links not found:              Unable to find files.
                                                              (line  21)
* symbolic links, and ls-R:              ls-R.                (line  44)
* symlinks, resolving:                   Calling sequence.    (line  31)
* system C compiler bugs:                TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line  16)
* system-dependent casefolding behavior: Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line   6)
* T1FONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* T1INPUTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* T42FONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 220)
* tcfmgr.map:                            Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  46)
* TDS:                                   TeX directory structure.
                                                              (line   6)
* TeX directory structure:               TeX directory structure.
                                                              (line   6)
* TeX environment variables:             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line   6)
* TeX failures:                          TeX or Metafont failing.
                                                              (line   6)
* TeX file lookup:                       File lookup.         (line   6)
* TeX glyph lookup:                      Glyph lookup.        (line   6)
* TeX support:                           TeX support.         (line   6)
* TeX Users Group:                       Introduction.        (line  42)
* TEX_HUSH:                              Searching overview.  (line  63)
* TEX_HUSH <1>:                          Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line   6)
* tex-file.c:                            File lookup.         (line  37)
* tex-file.h:                            Programming overview.
                                                              (line  26)
* tex-glyph.c:                           Glyph lookup.        (line  26)
* tex-glyph.h:                           Programming overview.
                                                              (line  26)
* tex-k@tug.org:                         Mailing lists.       (line   6)
* tex-k@tug.org (bug address):           Reporting bugs.      (line   6)
* tex.web:                               unixtex.ftp.         (line  20)
* TEXBIB:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  30)
* TEXBIB <1>:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 125)
* TEXCONFIG:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  57)
* TEXDOCS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 189)
* TEXFONTMAPS:                           Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  98)
* TEXFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  75)
* TEXFONTS <1>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 168)
* TEXFONTS <2>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 203)
* TEXFONTS <3>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 223)
* texfonts.map:                          Fontmap.             (line   6)
* TEXFORMATS:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  64)
* TEXINDEXSTYLE:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  84)
* TEXINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  79)
* TEXINPUTS <1>:                         Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 184)
* TEXMF:                                 TeX directory structure.
                                                              (line   6)
* texmf_casefold_search:                 Casefolding search.  (line  12)
* TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, and missfont.log: mktex script names.
                                                              (line  39)
* TEXMF_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY, and paranoid output files: Safe filenames.
                                                              (line  21)
* texmf.cnf:                             Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  38)
* texmf.cnf missing, warning about:      Config files.        (line  18)
* texmf.cnf, and variable expansion:     Variable expansion.  (line   6)
* texmf.cnf, definition for:             Config files.        (line   6)
* texmf.cnf, source for path:            Path sources.        (line  20)
* TEXMFCNF:                              Config files.        (line   6)
* TEXMFCNF <1>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  49)
* TEXMFDBS:                              ls-R.                (line  11)
* TEXMFDBS <1>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  91)
* TEXMFINI:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  26)
* TEXMFINI <1>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  64)
* TEXMFINI <2>:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 101)
* TEXMFLOG:                              Logging.             (line  10)
* TEXMFOUTPUT, and missfont.log:         mktex script names.  (line  39)
* TEXMFOUTPUT, and paranoid output files: Safe filenames.     (line  21)
* TEXMFSCRIPTS:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 195)
* TEXMFSYSVAR:                           Safe filenames.      (line  26)
* texmfvar:                              mktex configuration. (line 122)
* TEXMFVAR:                              mktex configuration. (line 123)
* TEXMFVAR <1>:                          Safe filenames.      (line  26)
* TEXPICTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line  79)
* TEXPKS:                                Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 168)
* TEXPOOL:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 199)
* TEXPSHEADERS:                          Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 173)
* TEXPSHEADERS <1>:                      Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 215)
* TEXSIZES:                              Fallback font.       (line   6)
* TEXSOURCES:                            Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 192)
* TFMFONTS:                              Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 203)
* tilde expansion:                       Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* tilde.c:                               Tilde expansion.     (line  25)
* time system call:                      Logging.             (line  15)
* tolerance for glyph lookup:            Basic glyph lookup.  (line  15)
* trailing / in home directory:          Tilde expansion.     (line  19)
* trailing colons:                       Default expansion.   (line   6)
* translations, of path searching description: Path searching.
                                                              (line  10)
* TRFONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 207)
* trick for detecting leaf directories:  Subdirectory expansion.
                                                              (line  22)
* trojan horse:                          Safe filenames.      (line   6)
* trojan horse attack:                   Security.            (line  16)
* try_std_extension_first:               File lookup.         (line  24)
* TTFONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 211)
* tug.org:                               unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* typeface directory, omitting:          mktex configuration. (line 105)
* typeface directory, omitting <1>:      mktex configuration. (line 108)
* unable to find files:                  Unable to find files.
                                                              (line   6)
* unable to generate fonts:              Unable to generate fonts.
                                                              (line   6)
* uname:                                 Bug checklist.       (line  20)
* unixtex.ftp:                           unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* unknown special warnings:              Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  31)
* unreadable file warnings:              Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line  27)
* unreadable files:                      Searching overview.  (line  63)
* unrestricted mode, for output files:   Safe filenames.      (line  13)
* unusable ls-R warning:                 ls-R.                (line  51)
* usage patterns, finding:               Logging.             (line   6)
* USE_TEXMFVAR:                          mktex configuration. (line 128)
* USE_VARTEXFONTS:                       mktex configuration. (line 118)
* USERPROFILE, as ~ expansion:           Tilde expansion.     (line   6)
* varfonts:                              mktex configuration. (line 112)
* variable expansion:                    Variable expansion.  (line   6)
* variable.c:                            Variable expansion.  (line  32)
* variable.h:                            Programming with config files.
                                                              (line  10)
* VARTEXFONTS:                           mktex configuration. (line 113)
* VAX 11/750:                            History.             (line  12)
* version numbers, determining:          Bug checklist.       (line  15)
* VF files, not found:                   Searching overview.  (line  31)
* VFFONTS:                               Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 223)
* Vojta, Paul:                           History.             (line  30)
* Walsh, Norman:                         History.             (line  56)
* warning about unusable ls-R:           ls-R.                (line  51)
* warning, about missing texmf.cnf:      Config files.        (line  18)
* warnings, file access:                 Searching overview.  (line  63)
* warnings, suppressing:                 Suppressing warnings.
                                                              (line   6)
* WEB2C:                                 Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 231)
* Weber, Olaf:                           History.             (line  73)
* WEBINPUTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 227)
* whitespace, in fontmap files:          Fontmap.             (line  31)
* whitespace, not ignored on continuation lines: Config files.
                                                              (line  37)
* Windows and casefolding:               Casefolding rationale.
                                                              (line  21)
* www.tug.org:                           unixtex.ftp.         (line   6)
* XDvi:                                  Specially-recognized files.
                                                              (line  41)
* XDVIFONTS:                             Supported file formats.
                                                              (line 258)
* XDVIMAKEPK:                            mktex script names.  (line  32)
* XDVISIZES:                             Fallback font.       (line   6)
* zuhn, david:                           History.             (line  50)



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Node: Security10454
Node: Global font cache and security13167
Node: TeX directory structure15158
Node: Path searching19333
Node: Searching overview20291
Node: Path sources24198
Node: Config files25468
Node: Path expansion30516
Node: Default expansion31485
Node: Variable expansion33607
Node: Tilde expansion35076
Node: Brace expansion36124
Node: KPSE_DOT expansion37119
Node: Subdirectory expansion37644
Node: Casefolding search40084
Node: Casefolding rationale40861
Node: Casefolding examples42219
Node: Filename database47441
Node: ls-R48455
Node: Filename aliases52327
Node: Database format53569
Node: Invoking kpsewhich54618
Node: Path searching options55601
Node: Specially-recognized files65603
Node: Auxiliary tasks67078
Node: Standard options71222
Node: TeX support71590
Node: Supported file formats72948
Node: File lookup81699
Node: Glyph lookup83504
Node: Basic glyph lookup84652
Node: Fontmap85560
Node: Fallback font88168
Node: Suppressing warnings89104
Node: mktex scripts90267
Node: mktex configuration91510
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Node: mktex script arguments99286
Node: Programming100201
Node: Programming overview100844
Node: Calling sequence103755
Node: Safe filenames109092
Ref: openout_any109251
Node: Program-specific files113104
Node: Programming with config files114157
Node: Reporting bugs115804
Node: Bug checklist116482
Node: Mailing lists120039
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Node: Logging125973
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Node: Unable to find files128357
Node: Slow path searching130813
Node: Unable to generate fonts132208
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