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texdoc

Section: teTeX (1)
Updated: September 2000
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NAME

texdoc - Utility to maintain TeX format files

 

SYNOPSIS

texdoc [ OPTION ... ] NAME [ ... ]

 

DESCRIPTION

texdoc seaches for NAME in the TeX documentation and starts an appropriate viewer.

NAME should be the name of a command or package in the teTeX distribution.

 

OPTIONS

--help
Display a brief summary of options.
-l
List matching files. Does not start a viewer.
-v
Sets verbose mode. Shows the command being used to display the documentation.

 

ENVIRONMENT

$TEXDOCVIEW_dvi
DVI viewer. Defaults to xdvi(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_pdf
PDF viewer. Defaults to acroread(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_ps
PostScript viewer. Defaults to ghostview(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_html
HTML viewer. Defaults to netscape(1).
$TEXDOCVIEW_txt
Text viewer. Defaults to $PAGER-more.

 

FILES

texdoc.cnf
default configuration file

 

SEE ALSO

acroread(1), gv(1), kpsewhich(1), less(1), more(1), xdvi(1)

Web page: <http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/>

 

BUGS

None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).

 

AUTHOR

texdoc was written by Thomas Esser <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>, David Aspinall <da@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, and Simon Wilkinson <sxw@dcs.ed.ac.uk> during 1998 and 1999. texdoc is in the public domain.

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


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR

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