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texdoc − Utility to look up TeX documentation
texdoc [ OPTION ... ] NAME [ ... ]
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.
--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. |
$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
acroread(1), gv(1), kpsewhich(1), less(1), more(1), xdvi(1)
Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>
None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (mailing list).
texdoc was written by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.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).
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