[OS X TeX] Path for texdoc

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 16, 2009, at 11:17 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:

> 
> A command like texdoc 'texdoc microtype' gives me  'The file /Users/simi/Library/texmf/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf does not exist.' which means that it only searches in ~/Library/texmf.
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Simon

Howdy,

What does

kpsewhich -var-value=TEXDOCS

return? 

Have you set TEXDOCS manually somewhere? Do you have something in your ~/Library/texmf/ tree that is ``misleading'' texdoc/kpsewhich?

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)