[OS X TeX] Trouble accessing beamer docs
Mark Eli Kalderon
eli at markelikalderon.com
Tue Feb 26 02:29:35 CET 2008
On Feb 25 2008, at 21:33, Rowland McDonnell 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/.
>
> /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.
>
For what it is worth, I just today had the same problem with the Pgf/
Tikz manual.
Best, Mark
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