On 21/01/2008, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One thing I'd like to ask about from the original post::
In tex/latex bundled in fedora (I guess it comes from tetex and it is
now in texlive) there is a simple system to view documentation.
What is this "simple system"? We do have a rule that nothing marked as
%doc should break an application if it is not present on the system. If
this help system is integrated into applications (like ghelp for gnome)
then this would count under that rule. If it's more like man and info
pages then we'd want them to be marked as doc even if they are located
somewhere other than %{_docdir}.
In theory, to get documentation on any tex package, you type "texdoc
<package>". The system then looks in texmf/tex/doc/ for
<package>.{pdf,html,ps,dvi,...} and loads it in the appropriate
viewer.
This doesn't always work, for example with packages whose
documentation isn't named after the package, but that's the theory.
More information at
http://linux.die.net/man/1/texdoc or
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdoc.html
MEF
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Informatik 6: Robotics and Embedded Systems, Technische Universität München
and ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh