texdoc(1) teTeX texdoc(1)NAMEtexdoc - Utility to look up TeX documentation
SYNOPSIStexdoc [ OPTION ... ] NAME [ ... ]
DESCRIPTIONtexdoc 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 $PAGER-more.
The environment variables should be set with a ``%s'' as a
placeholder for the name of the file. For example,
hostname% setenv TEXDOCVIEW_pdf "gv %s"
or
hostname$ TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s"
hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html
FILES
texdoc.cnf
default configuration file
SEE ALSOacroread(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@dbs.uni-
hannover.de> (mailing list).
AUTHORtexdoc was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-han-
nover.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).
teTeX September 2000 texdoc(1)