[texworks] Getting package help - a Script

[Paul A Norman]

On 14 February 2011 13:11, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> wrote:
> On 14 February 2011 Paul A Norman wrote:
>
>  > This script runs TexDoc using a package name highlighted in the Tw
>  > editor.
>
> Hi Paul,
> I fear that a program called "TexDoc" exists only on operating systems
> which don't support ASCII yet.  On all modern systems the program is
> called "texdoc".
>

Thanks Reinhard, I have called it in the script using "texdoc", is
there a particualr OS that needs it to be called TexDoc that I need to
build in for?

> Making texdoc accessible from texworks directly is a great thing.  Did
> you consider to make the TeX FAQ accessible too?  This would be
> helpful if people don't know which package they actually need.
>

Yes I had some of that ready to go but Tw decided to not at present
make WebKit available as an additional module - I'll look into it
again when I can, I have some stuff that might be easily adapted.

Paul

> Anyway, thanks for the great work!
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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