Re: MacTeX 2007 and documentation

David C. Ullrich schrieb:
In article <1ihrmy0.1ib55yx7999knN%real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:

David C. Ullrich <dullrich@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.
I don't see how else we're expected to be able to find the
documentation...

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.
Are you /really/ sure that it has real working links to those files?
Have you tried them?

MacTeX 2007 here has what looks like links to those files, but they're
broken.

Yeah, I discovered that a minute after I made that post - couldn't
post a correction/retraction immediately for various reasons.

Sorry.

I'm not an expert, but can't we fix the local catalogue with a symbolic link? How about...

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex

$ cd /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex

$ sudo ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ contrib

or something?

HTH,
Malte
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