Which place for docs in French, German, etc?

[Alan Jeffrey]

>...but I do not undertand that point? If AMSLaTeX doc was in
>$texmf/doc, then it would be in $texmf/us/doc. Why A. N. Punter
>could not find it?

If I'm looking for foobar documentation on my Mac then at the
moment I open the folder:

   texmf:doc:latex

and look for something appropriate.  Under your scheme I have to first
open the folder:

   texmf:doc:latex:fr

then:

   texmf:doc:latex:de

then:

   texmf:doc:latex:us

then ...

On Unix you can use * patterns to get round this, but not under MacOs
(and possibly not PatioDoors95).

Alan.