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.
Display a brief summary of options.
P
List matching files. Does not start a viewer.
Sets verbose mode. Shows the command being used to
display the documentation.
DVI viewer. Defaults to xdvi(1).
PDF viewer. Defaults to acroread(1).
PostScript viewer. Defaults to
ghostview(1).
HTML viewer. Defaults to netscape(1).
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).
