Re: texdoc

[Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 08:49:20PM +0200, Christophe TROESTLER wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering: wouldn't it be good that tetex-doc makes symbolic
> links of the type
> 	graphics.dvi.gz -> grfguide.dvi.gz
> in order to be able to use "texdoc graphics"?  The idea is that, in
> general, one can use "texdoc <LaTeX pkg name>" to get the doc.

Agree, that's why i filed #62859 ;-)

> Also, texdoc uses ghostview.  So either one should make it use gv or
> the gv package should make a symbolic link ghostview -> gv.

It would be nice to choose viewers, but remember that many people still
seem uncomfortable with teTeX configuration. Maybe texdoctk could help
here (i did not try it yet, it is a new package in woody).

Denis