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Re: texdoc doesn't find documentation



Hallo Frank,

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
> Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> my texdoc does not work.
>>
>> % texdoc -l amsldoc  
>> Can't find documentation for `amsldoc'
>> % texdoc -s amsldoc
>> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amsmath/amsldoc.pdf.gz
>>
>> I'm using TeX‐Live 2007. Can you give me a hint what I'm should looking
>> for?
>
> kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF/doc'
>
> This should give a list of directories, and the one where amsldoc is
> (still /usr/share/texmf-texlive/doc/latex/amslatex/amsldoc.pdf.gz?)
> should be among them.

I changed TEXDOCS to .;$TEXMF/doc//.;/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc// and now
it works.

BTW: The texdoc search mode should search in $TEXDOCS and not in
$TEXMF/doc.

Bye, Jörg.
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