[OS X TeX] problem with man files

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 2 janv. 07 à 11:59, Martin Stokhof a écrit :

> Thanks for the help. Your shortened version gets rid of the "unable  
> to make sense" complaint, but now every time I invoke man the  
> answer is that there is no such manual entry. I checked the  
> permissions, the various man entries are all readable. Any further  
> suggestions?
> [...]
> (Btw I am running 10.3.9)
>
> On 2 Jan, 2007, at 11:31, John Rawnsley wrote:
>
>> [...] Also the use of
>> manpath.config and /usr/local/man indicates an older system and I  
>> think
>> MANPATH is not an allowed variable except for the latest system,  
>> so try
>> the below shortened version (with lines unwrapped):
>> [...]

Yes the existence of /etc/manpath.config indicates you're using  
Panther. The lines added by the MacTeX installation:

## TeX modifications start at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
## Do not remove previous line
MANPATH /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man
## Do not remove next line
## TeX modifications end at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
##
## TeXMap modifications start at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
## Do not remove previous line
MANPATH_MAP /usr/texbin /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/ 
Contents/Man
## Do not remove next line
## TeXMap modifications end at Sun Dec 31 16:28:55 CET 2006
##

are meant for Tiger, for which:

- The configuration file defining where man looks for man pages is / 
usr/share/misc/man.conf.

- The new MANPATH entry has been introduced.

In your case MANPATH cannot be used, but I see there's an  
OPTIONAL_MANPATH. If, as is the case for MANPATH in Tiger, several  
OPTIONAL_MANPATH can be defined, then you could try keeping the above  
MANPATH entry, simply editing it to replace MANPATH by  
OPTIONAL_MANPATH, then rebooting just to be sure.

Hope this works (I've no Panther setup to test on),

Bruno Voisin


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