[texdoc] Some small bugs and more

[Norbert Preining]

>    If texdoc starts interacting with the user, couldn't we help a newbie,
>    who would have been typing "texdoc label", with a reply such as "label
>    is described in the LaTeX2e manual ; please type 'texdoc latex2e' to
>    open it"?

And how would we get a definitive list of "xxx" for each of the many
documents "yyyyy" (in your case xxx=label, yyyyy=latex2e)?

Should that be parsed from the PDF? From the .sty files? From the .dtx
files? 

The only reasonable way would be that someone sits down and compiles a
list by hand, but it will be very biased I guess.

>    It needs a keyword list (containing every command that appears in the
>    table of contents of the manual), and a feature replying, in case of a
>    match, "$1 is described in the LaTeX2e manual ; please type 'texdoc
>    latex2e' to open it".

So do you propose this *only* for the latex manual? That should be
doable by manually tweaking the texconf.cnf files by adding some alias
statements.

Furthermore, I guess you mean 
  LaTeX2e: An unofficial reference manual
right?

Norbert

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