Kpathsea library

for version 3.2

October 1997

This manual documents how to install and use the Kpathsea library for filename lookup. It corresponds to version 3.2, released in October 1997.

• Introduction
  • History
• Installation
  • Simple installation
  • Custom installation
    • Disk space
    • Kpathsea application distributions
    • Changing search paths
      • Default path features
      • Default path generation
    • Running configure
      • configure shells
      • configure options
      • configure environment
      • configure scenarios
      • Shared library
    • Running make
    • Installing files
    • Cleaning up
    • Filename database generation
    • `mktex' scripts
      • `mktex' configuration
      • `mktex' script names
      • `mktex' script arguments
    • Installation testing
  • Security
  • TeX directory structure
  • `unixtex.ftp': Obtaining TeX
    • Electronic distribution
    • CD-ROM distribution
    • Tape distribution
    • Other TeX packages
  • Reporting bugs
    • Bug checklist
    • Mailing lists
    • Debugging
    • Logging
    • Common problems
      • Unable to find files
      • Slow path searching
      • Unable to generate fonts
      • TeX or Metafont failing
      • Empty Makefiles
      • XtStrings
      • dlopen
      • ShellWidgetClass
      • Pointer combination warnings
• Path searching
  • Searching overview
  • Path sources
    • Config files
  • Path expansion
    • Default expansion
    • Variable expansion
    • Tilde expansion
    • Brace expansion
    • KPSE_DOT expansion
    • Subdirectory expansion
  • Filename database (ls-R)
    • `ls-R'
    • Filename aliases
    • Database format
  • kpsewhich: Standalone path searching
    • Path searching options
    • Auxiliary tasks
    • Standard options
• TeX support
  • Supported file formats
  • File lookup
  • Glyph lookup
    • Basic glyph lookup
    • Fontmap
    • Fallback font
  • Suppressing warnings
• Programming
  • Programming overview
  • Calling sequence
  • Program-specific files
  • Programming with config files
• Index

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