Bug#211056: tetex-bin: texdoc shows Catalogue entry instead of compressed file (e.g. dvi.gz)

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 15.09.03 Frank Küster (frank@kuesterei.ch) wrote:

Hi,

> It seems that the fix of #93781 broke something else. Take tabularx
> as an example, texdoc tabularx should launch
> 
> xdvi /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/tools/tabularx.dvi.gz
> 
> but instead it shows the Catalogue entry 
> 
> /usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/entries/tabularx.html
> 
> in the appropriate viewer. 
> 
> The reason is the order of extensions in $listext generated from
> "kpsewhich --expand-brace='$TEXDOCEXT'":
> 
> listext=.pdf:.dvi:.ps:.html:.txt:.pdf.gz:.dvi.gz: [...]
> 
Shrug! Must have missed that.

> Since there seems to be no way to discriminate Catalogue entries from
> other html documentation, I would suggest to move the html to the very
> end. If somebody prefers the html documentation, he can bookmark it;
> it's mainly two big documents (latex2e-html and uktug-faq). A wishlist
> thing would be a file "htmlhelpindex.html" containing all html docs.
> 
> The following patch worked for me:
> 
OK, will close #160680 too.

H. 
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