[OS X TeX] Configuring man pages

[Chris Goedde]

Thanks to Bruno and Richard, and everyone else who replied.

Chris

On Aug 5, 2008, at 2:54 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 5 août 08 à 00:21, Richard Koch a écrit :
>
>> On Aug 4, 2008, at 3:13 PM, David Watson wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> MacTeX configures MANPATH as part of the installation, and uses the  
>> Laurens-Wierda TeX Distribution structure so the correct man pages  
>> will be shown depending on your active distribution. The method of  
>> configuring MANPATH changed in Leopard, but this will work when TeX  
>> Live 2008, and thus MacTeX-2008, is released.
>
> In other words, until MacTeX-2008 is released, you can solve your  
> problem by applying the Leopard TeX fix available from <http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/ 
> >.
>
> See the explanations at <http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/LeopardTeXFix.rtf 
> >, in particular:
>
>> To extend PATH and MANPATH for TeX, it is only necessary to add a  
>> file named TeX to /etc/paths.d with the single entry
>>
>> 	/usr/texbin
>>
>> and add a file named TeX to /etc/manpaths.d with the single entry
>>
>> 	/Library/TeX/Distributions/.DefaultTeX/Contents/Man
>>
>> Give these new files the owner, group, and permissions of the  
>> corresponding X11 file.
>
> BTW, even 9.5 hours aftwerwards I still haven't received  David  
> Watson's message Dick was answering to.
>
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