[OS X TeX] Man pages for latex installation

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 11 juin 07 à 17:08, Alan Munn a écrit :

> For some reason the man command doesn't seem to find any man pages  
> for binaries in my TeX installation, either gwTeX or TeX Live.
>
> I seem to have the right entries in /usr/share/misc/man.conf (i.e.  
> the following lines show up in it:)
>
> ## TeX modifications start at Fri May 18 07:56:22 EDT 2007
> ## Do not remove previous line
> MANPATH /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man
> ## Do not remove next line
> ## TeX modifications end at Fri May 18 07:56:22 EDT 2007
> ## TeXMap modifications start at Fri May 18 07:56:22 EDT 2007
> ## Do not remove previous line
> MANPATH_MAP /usr/texbin /Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/ 
> Contents/Man
> ## Do not remove next line
> ## TeXMap modifications end at Fri May 18 07:56:22 EDT 2007
>
> [...]
>
> (I'm using tscsh as my shell; neither my .login file nor my .cshrc  
> file contain manpath statements.)

The above should normally work. Are you sure nothing is broken in the  
TeXDist structure in /Library/TeX, so that /Library/TeX/ 
Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man does no longer point anywhere?

Here on my setup:

theo0mc234:~ brunovoisin$ ls -l /Library/TeX/ 
Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  54 May 19 18:10 /Library/TeX/ 
Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man -> ../../../../../../usr/local/ 
texlive/2007/texmf/doc/man

Regarding man.conf, I have also added to it the line:

MANPATH	/usr/local/man

so that it finds the man pages for GhostScript, FontForge etc., put  
by i-Installer in usr/local/man, instead of looking only at /usr/ 
local/share/man as is implied by the line, in the default man.conf:

MANPATH_MAP	/usr/local/bin		/usr/local/share/man

Bruno Voisin
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