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texdoc

NAME

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