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latex-doc-ptr
-This is intended as the document that comes up when a person runs
+ This is intended as the document that comes up when a person runs
'texdoc latex'. The idea is that an exhaustive reference for LaTeX
is not what the overwhelming majority of users would find useful at
-that point. So instead, in addition to naming such a reference,
-it points to a selection of docs that may be of value to a variety
-of users.
+that point. Instead, it gives a selection of resources, for a
+variety of users.
+
+ See also http://mirror.ctan.org/info/first-latex-doc .
-See also http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/first-latex-doc .
License:
public domain
+
+Install:
+ If you have a recent TeX distribution,
+ pdflatex latex-doc-ptr
+should do nicely.
+
+ My version of TeX is old, so I have some trouble with tex4ht. If you
+are in my situation then try the Makefile, which does a lot of hacking.
+
+
+Notes:
+
+1) My version of make4ht requires that I change
+ \def\IfFileExists#1#2#3{%
+to
+ \long\def\IfFileExists#1#2#3{%
+in a local copy of tex4ht.sty. See https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/423729/339
+
+2) Repo is here.
+ https://gitlab.com/jim.hefferon/latex-doc-ptr
+
+
Comments to:
- Jim Hefferon email ftpmaint at tug.ctan.org
+ Jim Hefferon email jhefferon@smcvt.edu
+
History:
+ 2021-Jan-02 JH, KB Merged with another doc, first-packages.
2009-Mar-24 Jim Hefferon, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, Karl Berry