[OS X TeX] Re: [XeTeX] Microtypography?

[Claus Gerhardt]

I use the command texdoc for years to my satisfaction. The terminal  
is the first application that I open after starting my machine, and  
it stays open till an eventual shutdown or reboot.

Typing, e.g.,

texdoc natbib

in the terminal takes about two seconds, and the corresponding manual  
of natbib.sty is opened in Preview as a pdf file  2 seconds later.  
The same behaviour applies to virtual all manuals of latex packages  
which are stored on my machine, be it a dvi or ps file. Every support  
document (dvi or ps) will be converted to pdf and opened in Preview.

I would definitely give texdoc a try, and don't be afraid of the  
Terminal, it is your friend.

Claus



On May 9, 2006, at 23:17, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 9 mai 06 à 18:47, Philipp Mathey a écrit :
>
>> Ok, thanks. What is this texdoc thing ?
>
> Apparently, the standard Linux system for reading the documentation  
> of TeX and related programs, utilities, packages, etc.
>
> Try for example, in Terminal:
>
> 	texdoc TETEXDOC
> 	texdoc amsfndoc
>
> There seems, however, to be two problems:
>
> - Using texdoc requires a trip to the Terminal, which many users of  
> TeX on the Mac (including me) will prefer to avoid whenever possible.
>
> - The documentation of TeX and its relatives does not follow any  
> logical naming scheme (see the above examples).
>
> Apparently, again, that's why a derivative texdoctk is born, (i)  
> providing a GUI to texdoc and (ii) using a dedicated database to  
> relate each TeX relative to a list of keywords and to the name of  
> its doc. Unfortunately, it seems the installation of a special Perl  
> module is required, which isn't installed by default.
>
> Bruno Voisin
> (who must confess knowing practically nothing about texdoc, and  
> nothing at all about texdoctk, just about 12 hours  
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