texdoc

Name
texdoc – Utility to look up TeX documentation

Synopsis
texdoc [ OPTION … ] NAME [ … ]

Description
texdoc seaches for NAME in the TeX documentation and starts an appro?
priate viewer.

NAME should be the name of a command or package in the teTeX distribu?
tion.

Options
–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.

Environment
$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

See also
acroread, gv, kpsewhich, less, more, xdvi

Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>

Bugs
None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de>
(mailing list).

Author
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).

texdoc                   September 2000