texdoc(1) teTeX texdoc(1) NAME texdoc - Utility to look up TeX documentation SYNOPSIS texdoc [ OPTION ... ] NAME [ ... ] DESCRIPTION texdoc seaches for NAME in the TeX documentation and starts an appro priate viewer. NAME should be the name of a command or package in the teTeX distribu tion. OPTIONS --help Display a brief summary of options. -l List matching files. Does not start a viewer. -v Sets verbose mode. Shows the command being used to display the documentation. ENVIRONMENT $TEXDOCVIEW_dvi DVI viewer. Defaults to xdvi(1). $TEXDOCVIEW_pdf PDF viewer. Defaults to acroread(1). $TEXDOCVIEW_ps PostScript viewer. Defaults to ghostview(1). $TEXDOCVIEW_html HTML viewer. Defaults to netscape(1). $TEXDOCVIEW_txt Text viewer. Defaults to $PAGER-more. The environment variables should be set with a %s as a placeholder for the name of the file. For example, hostname% setenv TEXDOCVIEW_pdf "gv %s" or hostname$ TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s" hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html SEE ALSO acroread(1), gv(1), kpsewhich(1), less(1), more(1), xdvi(1) Web page: BUGS None known, but report any bugs found to (mailing list). AUTHOR texdoc was written by Thomas Esser , David Aspinall , and Simon Wilkinson during 1998 and 1999. texdoc is in the public domain. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly , for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author). teTeX September 2000 texdoc(1)