[OS X TeX] Path for texdoc

[Simon Spiegel]

On 16.11.2009, at 18:33, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> 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?

Got it. There was a file called ls-R which screwed things up.

Thanks

Simon

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