Thank you for your response.
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.
I would think that this statement is too vague to the user. Where can the user find the details of the "latex" command such as command line options?
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 see. In that case, I suggest including THIS information (that "luatex(1) and pdftex(1) contain an extensive listing of all possible options") in the manpage of the "latex" command. Mentioning the "-help" option would be nice, too, I would think.
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.
But, there doesn't seem to be information that the same options apply to the "latex" command as to luatex and pdftex .
I suggest to close the issue as "solved elsewehere". What do you think?
I would think that the problem is that the user cannot know what she will find in the documents of the commands listed under "SEE ALSO".
Cheers,
Ryo