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Bug#441287: texlive-latex-base: wish "man latex" mentioned the -help option



Am 08.09.2007 um 10:26 teilte Ryo Furue mit:

Hi Ryo,

> Hi, I thought it would be helpful if the manpage of latex mentioned
> that "latex -help" will give a list of command line options.  Better
> still, it would be nice if the list itself is found in the manpage.
> 
> Experienced Unix/Linux users expect to find, at the very least,
> command line options in the manpage.
> 
Please note the sentence right at the top of the page:

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page is a mere skeleton.

Further below we have:

SEE ALSO
       amstex(1), luatex(1), pdftex(1), ptex(1), tex(1), xetex(1).

, where luatex(1) & pdftex(1) contain an extensive listing of all
possible options. I don't really intend to duplicate them in latex(1).
Experienced users will be able to see the "SEE ALSO" section and look at
the manual pages of the other commands.

I suggest to close the issue as "solved elsewehere". What do you think?

Hilmar
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