[tex-live] Package documentation

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 00:44:46 CET 2008


2008/3/28, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>:
> Zdenek Wagner a écrit :
>
>
> Indeed. There was also the same problem with hyperref's manual for a moment.
>  Often one needs using 'texdoc -s' or even 'locate' to find the doc for the
>  first time, and then remember the good keywords to have texdoc find it next
>  time. Automating this, either using a documentation database, or coding some
>  good heuristic for texdoc, could be a relief for the user.
>
>  By the way, the same kind of problem happens to me when I type 'texdoc live':
>  I get the TeX Live manual, right, but in Chinese. So I think another
>  interesting thing to add to the documentation database possibly extracted from
>  the catalogue sources would be a language field of any kind, that texdoc could
>  use.
>
It probably depends on a lot of unpredictable things. I get it in
Russian. Bu what I wrote about manual.dvi in Bengali and
velthuis/manual.pdf, these two files are manuals for two different
packages, not just a language version.
>
>  Manuel.
>


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