[tex-live] texdoc can't find texmf.cnf

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Mon Jun 23 03:40:11 CEST 2008


Arthur Reutenauer scripsit (23.06.2008 03:11)
>   By the way, Jonathan, I noticed you used open for DVI files, but I
> don't think it would really work for most people: users would have to
> not only get the X server running, but also to make the association from
> DVI files to xdvi (or some other DVI viewer program), which seems rather
> unlikely to me; I have the impression xdvi would serve more users.  Of
> course, it still means you need to have xdvi in your path and to launch
> X11.app, but I feel you would get a better hit rate with the latter than
> with open.
> 
In an ideal world, we shouldn't need to bother about dvi (and ps), since every
documentation should be available in pdf format.  There's currently 221 dvi
files in texlive: all of them are on my (mid-term) to-kill list :-)

Manuel.


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