texdoctk

[Thomas Ruedas]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>:
>I tried on a non-teTeX trr (TeX Live) where I do not have updates.dat
Wouldn't it be possible to copy one of the database files
(texdoc-102.dat possibly) to texdoc-local.dat and then modify that
according to the TeXLive directory tree as described in the README under
INSTALLATION? texdoctk first looks for texdoc-local.dat, and only if
that is not there it tries to read updates.dat.
>ideally, you would get this information from the Williams Catalogue
>database, though it is not currently in there in the format you would
>need.
That would be a major effort, I guess, and I don't see a simple and
reliable way of extracting keywords from it. Besides, it would still
make it necessary to maintain a certain kind of database so that a
possible script for the generation of the final database knows which
docs of which packages are there at all at the local site.

Thomas
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Thomas Ruedas
Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, J.W.Goethe University Frankfurt
e-mail: ruedas@geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de
http://www.geophysik.uni-frankfurt.de/~ruedas/
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