Re: MacTeX 2007 and documentation

Enrico Gregorio <gregorio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

David C. Ullrich <dullrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

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;

Correct from the point of view of the assumptions of the people who
provided the automation, which assumptions were more than a little bit
daft if you ask me. They've given us automation that can never work
properly usefully, linked into a directory structure that's always going
to be a pain to work with by hand.

That's why I'm so frustrated - okay, so the automation's no bloody good.
Fine - I'll do it manually, but that's so slow and painful compared to
what I had before...

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.

Mmm! Okay. Thanks for the hint.

Rowland.

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