[OS X TeX] Trouble accessing beamer docs

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Rowland McDonnell
<rjmmnet-lists at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've come across a problem accessing documentation with MacTeX 2007.
>
>  I've not moved any of the standard installed components: everything is
>  where it was installed (G4 iMac, 10.4.11).
>
>  texdoc beamer in Terminal.app opens the following file in Firefox.app:
>
>  file://localhost/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/
>  entries/beamer.html
>
>  If I click on Documentation->Read documentation for this package from:
>  bearmeruserguide.pdf, I get this message:
>
>  Firefox can't find the file at
>  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/.


Try

/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf

Or

locate beameruserguide.pdf

from terminal

This is rather widespread problem with texlive 2007 documentation (was
discussed here methink 1 ya)


>
>  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/ exists, but contains no macros/
>  directory; it contains directories named after languages from bulgarian
>  to vietnamese.
>
>  The beamer documentation exists at this location:
>
>  /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.
>  pdf
>
>  Anyone got any thoughts?
>
>  Rowland.
>
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