[tex-live] TL vs CTAN

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Sat Nov 21 15:08:41 CET 2009


On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
> Victor Ivrii a écrit :
>> However it is a good question what file should be open by texdoc:
>> manual.pdf is IMHO the most useful for end user but hyperref.pdf
>> contains links to many other pdf files of hyperref bundle (including
>> manual.pdf) and manual.pdf doesn't
>>
> For some time I resisted and didn't want to show manual.pdf first,
> though it was asked many time. I still don't have a strong opinion here,
> but I'd like to mention that texdoc has several modes, like --list which
> make it list all results in a menu. Currently it is not of much use
> here, since the alias "kills" other results, but it will be fixed in the
> next version (to be uploaded in a few days):
>
> mpg at roth:~% texdoc --list hyperref
>  1 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/manual.pdf
>  2 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/hyperref.pdf
>  3 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/manual.html
>  4 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/ChangeLog.pdf
>  5 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/README.pdf
>  6 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/backref.pdf
>  7 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/nameref.pdf
>  8 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/options.pdf
>  9 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/paper.pdf
> 10 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/slides.pdf
> 11 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/manual2.html
> 12 /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/doc/latex/hyperref/manual3.html
> Please enter the number of the file to view, anything else to skip:
>

Nice

> There ise also a --mixed mode that opens the result in a viewer if there
> is only one result, or displays a menu if there are many results.
>

"is" or "coming?" currently in MacTeX it opens manual.pdf

Victor

>



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