Re: MacTeX 2007 and documentation

David C. Ullrich <dullrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <1ihq64l.b36w2d5woazzN%real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

I've been using texdoc from Terminal.app to try to find documentation
with MacTeX 2007.

It seems that it's expecting to find things like this

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman
.pdf.

But it turns out that

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/

doesn't contain a folder called `macros'.

Can anyone shed any light on this one? I see a lot of folders with
language names - containing the general documentation, rather than the
sort of thing you'd expect to see in /texmf-doc/doc/macros/, like
/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/.

Never heard of "texdoc" - keen.

If I say just

texdoc memoir

I get

file:///usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/entries/me
moir.html

which may or may not contain the information you're looking for
in memoir.pdf. It does have links to memman.pdf and memmanadd.pdf.

Of course "texdoc memman" does the thing. Unfortunately some
packages or classes don't have a manual with the "correct" name;
OTOH, there is the "s" option:

texdoc -s mem

produces, on my system,

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/basic.gst
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memmanadd.pdf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/README
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/minitoc/mtc-mem.pdf
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/minitoc/mtc-mem.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/newlfm/smemosec.tex
....

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and it should be clear what to ask for.

Ciao
Enrico
.