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author | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2012-08-06 13:38:57 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de> | 2012-08-06 13:38:57 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/News b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/News new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..caad4f51959 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/News @@ -0,0 +1,239 @@ +Version 0.84 (TeX Live 2012) +============================ + +Fix -f output when TEXMFHOME contains a list of paths. Bug sort-of reported +by Matthew Leingang, see http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/42920/ + +Version 0.83 +------------ + +Minor adjustments in the scoring system. + +Version 0.82 +------------ + +Fixes to the default viewer/destkop environment detection: +- try gvfs-open with Gnome +- always try xdg-open first (usually more up-to-date) +Thanks to Axel E. Retif for informing me that newer versions of Ubuntu don't +ship gnome-open by default any more. + +Version 0.81 (TeX Live 2011) +============================ + +Allow configuration files to be found in all TEXMF trees. +The default one should now be installed in TEXMFDIST (in upstream TeX Live) or +in a tree search after TEXMFLOCAL (in downstream distros). + +Delay default viewer detection, see: +http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-May/029150.html + +Drop long-deprecated things: +- --search (-> --showall), --verbosity-level and old syntax of -v +- alias_switch, -a, -A, --alias, --noalias +- 'regex' mode, + +Various internal cleanups and rearrangements. + +Version 0.80 +============ + +New 'lang' configuration option (defaults on system locale): now <name>-de.pdf +wins over <name>.pdf if German is preferred. Patch kindly provided by Philipp +Stephani. Also works with aliases (eg koma-de = scrguide wins over koma = +scrguien). + +Document the previously undocumented options from 0.72-tl2010. + +Accept htm as a valid extension, synonym for html. Emit less warnings about +viewers. + +Version 0.72 as in TeX Live 2010 +-------------------------------- + +New (undocumented) settings (bad)basenme_list, parallel to (bad)ext_list. + +New (undocumented) setting item suffix_list for known documentation suffixes, +previously hardcoded. + +New (undocumented) option --just-view for use by front-end programs. + +Version 0.72 +------------ + +Fix stupid bug introduced in 0.70: texdoc would crash if called without +arguments. (Reported by Maxime Chupin.) + +Version 0.71 +------------ + +Fix bug introduced in 0.70: some results were duplicated on windows. (Reported +by Uwe Siart.) + +Version 0.70 +============ + +Use information from the TeX Live package database (some of it coming from the +CTAN catalogue) to improve search results. Display some of this information. + +Show the current settings in --help message. + +Misc. internal changes & fixes. + +Deprecate -a, --alias, -A, --noalias and alias_switch. + +Version 0.66 +------------ + +Turn the -v=N, --verbosity=N command-line option into a pair of related options +-v, --verbose and -q, --quiet (more standard, Karl's suggestion). Also remove +uselessly verbose debug items so --debug is usable again. + +Rework help text (Karl's suggestion). + +Issue a warning about DISPLAY not being set on generic Unix before trying to +start a viewer. + +Small internal clean-ups. + +Version 0.65 +------------ + +Make it easier to change the list of configuration files used (eg for +downstream distributions). + +Version 0.64 +------------ + +Fix a crash when DISPLAY is unset on Unix by querying xprop more carefully. +(Bug introduced in 0.61.) + +Version 0.63 +------------ + +Fix a bug on windows which prevented from viewing sty files. + +Version 0.62 +------------ + +Support for zipped documentation is now an official option. +Please read the warnings before using it! + +Version 0.61 +------------ + +Detect desktop environments (KDE4, KDE, GNOME, XFCE) for viewer selection. + +Version 0.60 +============ + +Changed the search/alias/score logic. See section 2 of the manual for details, +but here is a primer: +- alias now /adds/ patterns to be search, it is no more a substitution +- new scoring system, partially configurable, with improved heuristics + +The beginning of the manual has been completely rewritten. + +Bugs have been fixed as usual, and probably some others introduced... + +Version 0.50 +============ + +- New option for machine-readable output. +- Bugfixes (esp. for zipped file support (Unix only)). +- Hopefully more sensible default viewer selection. + +Version 0.49 +------------ + +Major code rewrite. No big user-visible change, except a few bugs fixed and new +debugging levels. + +Version 0.47 (TeX Live 2009) +---------------------------- + +Adapt for man pages named *.man1.pdf instead of *.pdf. +(Temporary hack, done better since version 0.60.) + +Warning: zip support probably broken! + +Version 0.46 +------------ + +Avoid using lfs.currentdir() and lfs.chdir() which are broken on Solaris 10 +in LuaTeX 0.40 + +Version 0.45 +------------ + +Fix possible line ending problems on windows with certain versions of LuaTeX + +Version 0.44 +------------ + +- fixing viewer problems on Windows +- expanding the list of default viewers on generic Unix + + +Version 0.43 +------------ + +Improve support for zipped documentation and comments about it in the default +configuration file. (Thank Norbert Preining for his help.) + +Various fixes, aliases updates as usual. + +Version 0.42 +------------ + +Improvements to default txt viewer on Windows (thanks to Phil Taylor). + +New debugging levels; new names for debugging options. + +New configuration file allowing to run the development version more easily. + +Changes to the way files are displayed. Results are numbered even when -I is +used. + +Documentation update. Alias additions and fixes as usual. Various bugfixes. + +License switched to GPL. + +Version 0.4 (TeX Live 2008) +=========================== + +Use our own configuration files, not texmf.cnf. Rework the way viewers are +handled, and add a few configuration options. + +Add an 'alias' feature. Filter results in a more restrictive way. Add new search +modes 'mixed' and 'regex'. Turn result lists into menus. + +Add a user manual in pdf. + +Development passed from Frank Küster to Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard. + +Version 0.3 +----------- + +Various changes including: +- added changelog +- better OS detection for default viewer settings +- removed some debugging code +- -s now works in dirs without ls-R, too + +Version 0.2 +----------- + +Various changes including: +- implemented reading of configuration from texmf.cnf +- fixed "-s" option + +Version 0.1 +----------- + +Initial public release of the texlua version by Frank Küster. + +Earlier versions +---------------- + +Shell script by Thomas Esser maintained as part of teTeX. diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.pdf b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.pdf Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 00000000000..9de6754f92c --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.pdf diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..817489f697b --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/texdoc/texdoc.tex @@ -0,0 +1,837 @@ +% this is texdoc's user manual +% written by Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard in 2008, 2010 +% distributed under the terms of GPL v3 or later + +%!TEX encoding=utf-8 +%!TEX program=xelatex + +\setlength\overfullrule{5pt} + +\documentclass[a4paper, oneside]{scrartcl} +\usepackage{fontspec} +\usepackage{xunicode} + +\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX} +\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif} +\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans} +\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono} +\renewcommand\familydefault{\sfdefault} \normalfont +\newcommand\mylangle{$\langle$} +\newcommand\myrangle{$\rangle$} + +\usepackage{xargs, xspace, fancyvrb, xcolor, pifont, calc, ifmtarg, mathstyle} + +\usepackage[sf, bf]{titlesec} +\titlelabel{\makebox[0pt][r]{\thetitle\kern1pc}} +\titleformat{\subsubsection}[runin]{\itshape}{% + \makebox[0pt][r]{\thetitle\kern1pc}}{% + 0pt}{}[\maybedot\space --- \kern0pt] +\titlespacing{\subsubsection}{0pt}{0.5\baselineskip}{0pt} + +\usepackage{enumitem} +\newlength\lssep \setlength\lssep{\smallskipamount} +\setlist{noitemsep,topsep=\lssep,partopsep=\lssep} + +\usepackage[british]{babel} +\usepackage[bookmarks=true]{hyperref} +\usepackage{bookmark} +\hypersetup{% + bookmarksnumbered=true, bookmarksopen=true, bookmarksopenlevel=2, + pdftitle=texdoc: find and view documentation in TeX Live, + pdfauthor=Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, + pdfsubject=texdoc's user manual, + pdfkeywords={texdoc, TeX Live, manual}} + +\newcommand\CTAN[1]{% + \href{http://mirror.ctan.org/tex-archive/#1}{CTAN:#1}} +\newcommand\mailto[1]{% + \href{mailto:#1}{#1}} +\newcommand\package[1]{% + \href{http://ctan.org/pkg/#1}{#1}} +\newcommand\http[1]{% + \href{http://#1}{#1}} + +\newcommand\texlive{% + \TeX\thinspace Live\xspace} +\newcommand\tex{\TeX\xspace} +\newcommand\latex{\LaTeX\xspace} + +\setlength\parindent{\baselineskip} + +\lastlinefit=500 % e-TeX powered + +\definecolor{links}{named}{violet} +\definecolor{special}{rgb}{0,0.5,0} +\definecolor{code}{rgb}{0,0,0.6} +\hypersetup{colorlinks=true, linkcolor=links, urlcolor=links, citecolor=links} + +\newcommand\cofont{% % code + \color{code}\normalfont\ttfamily} +\newcommand\meta[1]{% % meta elements + {\normalfont\color{special}\mylangle\textit{#1}\myrangle}} + +% take care of non-breakable spaces +\catcode`\ 10\relax + +\fvset{% + formatcom=\cofont, + defineactive=\makeallfancy, + codes=\fancyactives, + } +\newcommand\fancyactives{% + \catcode`\«\active} +\newcommand\makeallfancy{% + \makefancyog} +{\catcode`\«\active +\global\def\makefancyog{% + \def«##1»{\meta{##1}}} +} + +\newif\ifframed +\newlength\dec +\setlength\dec{\heightof{\cofont{texdoc \meta{name}}}} + +\makeatletter +\newenvironment{commandes}[3]{% + \def\thecmd{\noexpand#1}% + \def\bmtext{#2}% + \def\thelabel{#3}% + \SaveVerbatim[samepage, gobble=2]{verbmat}% + }{% + \endSaveVerbatim + \xdef\sectioncmd{\noexpand\nodotthistime + \thecmd[\bmtext]{% + \ifframed + \unexpanded{\normalsize\normalfont + \fbox{\raisebox{\dec}{\BUseVerbatim[baseline=t]{verbmat}}}}% + \else + \unexpanded{\normalsize\normalfont + \BUseVerbatim{verbmat}}% + \fi + \noexpand\label{\thelabel}}}% + \aftergroup\sectioncmd} +\makeatother + +\newcommand\maybedot{.} +\newcommand\nodotthistime{% + \renewcommand\maybedot{% + \global\def\maybedot{.}}} + +\newenvironment{cmdsubsec}[2]{% + \framedtrue \commandes\subsection{#1}{#2}% + }{% + \endcommandes} + +\newenvironment{cmdsubsub}[2]{% + \framedfalse \commandes\subsubsection{#1}{#2}% + }{% + \endcommandes} + +\makeatletter +\newenvironment{htcode}{% % code en hors-texte + \SaveVerbatim[samepage, gobble=2]{verbmat}% + }{% + \endSaveVerbatim + \par\medskip\noindent\hspace*{\parindent}% + \BUseVerbatim{verbmat}% + \par\medskip\@endpetrue} +\makeatother +\DefineShortVerb{\©} + +\setkomafont{title}{} +\setkomafont{subtitle}{\Large} +\deffootnote[1.5em]{1.5em}{1em}{\textsuperscript{\thefootnotemark}\thinspace} + +\newcommand\tdml{\href{mailto:texdoc@tug.org}{texdoc mailing list}\xspace} + +\title{Texdoc} +\subtitle{Find \& view documentation in \texlive\\ + \href{http://tug.org/texdoc/}{http://tug.org/texdoc/}\\ + \mailto{texdoc@tug.org}} +\author{Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard\\ + v0.84 2012-06-01} +\date{} + +\begin{document} +\VerbatimFootnotes + +\maketitle + +\section{Quick guide (2 pages only)} + +\subsection{Basics} + +Open a command line\footnote{On Windows, press Win-R and type ©cmd©. On Mac + OS X, use the ``terminal'' application. If you are using another flavour of + Unix, you probably know what to do.} and type ©texdoc «name»©: the +documentation of the ©«name»© package will pop up. Of course, replace ©«name»© +with the actual name of the package. To look up the documentation of more +than one package at once, just use many ©«name»©s as arguments. + +\subsection{Modes}\label{ss-modes} + +Texdoc has different modes that determine how results will be handled. In the +default, ``view'' mode, it opens the first (supposedly the best) result in a +viewer. It is rather handy when you know what you want to read, and want to +access it quickly. On the other hand, there may be other relevant documents +for the given ©«name»©, which are ignored in view mode. + +The so-called ``list mode'' makes texdoc list all relevant documentation and +ask you which one you want to view. It is useful when there a other +interesting sources of information besides the package's main documentation. + +There is also a ``mixed'' mode, intended to combine the best of view mode and +list mode: if there is only one relevant result, then texdoc opens it in a +viewer, else it offers you a menu. + +By default, texdoc hides the results it considers less relevant (unless it +finds no relevant result at all). In ``showall'' mode, it always shows all +results. + +To select the mode on the command-line, use ©texdoc «option» «name»© with one +of the following options: ©-w© or ©--view© for view mode, ©-m© or ©--mixed© +for mixed mode, ©-l© or ©--list© for list mode, ©-s© or ©--showall© for +showall mode. + +If you always (or mostly) use the same mode, you don't want to keep typing the +same option. The next section describes how to customize texdoc using +configurations files. + +\subsection{Configuration files}\label{ss-quick-file} + +Use ©texdoc --files© to know where to put your personal configuration file; +you'll need to create this file (an possibly some directories) the first time. +(If you want to know the full list of possible configuration files, +see~\ref{ss-prec}.) + +In order to select you favorite mode, just insert a line ©mode = «yourmode»© +in this file, where ©«yourmode»© is one of ©view©, ©mixed©, ©list© or +©showall©. To set your favorite language, use ©lang = «2-letter code»©, though +it is usually detected automatically. + +The configuration file can be used to tweak texdoc in many ways, the most +useful of which is probably the selection of the viewers for various types of +documents, explained in the next section. + +\subsection{Viewers}\label{ss-viewer} + +Texdoc's mechanism for choosing a viewer varies according to your platform. +On Windows, OS X, or Unix with KDE, Gnome or XFCE, it uses your file +associations like when you double-click files in the Explorer, the Finder or +your default file manager (except for the text viewer, which is always a +pager). Otherwise, it tries to find a viewer in the path from a list of +``known'' viewers. + +You may want to select a different viewer for some kind of file. This is +achieved by setting the various ©viewer_«ext»© configuration options, where +©«ext»© is the extension corresponding to the file type. For example, if you +want to set xpdf as your default PDF viewer, and run it in the background, +insert the line ©viewer_pdf = xpdf %s &© in your configuration file. Here, +©%s© stands for the name of the file to view. + +\subsection{You can stop reading now} + +The next part explains texdoc mechanisms for finding the best results and how +to cutomize them. The default configuration file tries hard to set appropriate +values so that you normally don't need to fiddle with that, but you may be +curious or have special needs. + +The final part is a full reference including a few points omitted in the +present and next part. + +\clearpage + +\section{File search, aliases, score} + +\subsection{An overview of how texdoc works} + +When you type ©texdoc «keyword»©, texdoc first makes a list of files, from two +sources: +\begin{enumerate} + \item In the trees containing documentation (given by the + \href{http://www.tug.org/kpathsea/} {kpathsea} variable ©TEXDOCS©), it + selects all files containing ©«keyword»© in their name (including the + directory name); + \item In the \texlive Database, it looks for packages named + ©«keyword»© or containing a file ©«keyword».«ext»© where ©«ext»© may me + ©sty© or ©cls©, and selects all the documentation files from this package. +\end{enumerate} +Files are filtered by extension: only files with known extensions may be +selected. + +The selected files are then score according to some simple heuristics. For +example, a file named ©«keyword».pdf©, is good, ©«keyword»-«lang».pdf© will +score higher if your favorite language ©«lang»© is detected or configured, +©«keyword»-doc© will be preferred over ©«keyword»whatever©, files in a +directory named exactly ©«keyword»© get a bonus, etc. + +Score may also be adjusted base on file extensions or known names (or +subwords): for example, by default, ©Makefile©s get a very bad score since +they are almost never documentation.\footnote{They often end up in the doc + tree, since the source of documentation is often in the same directory as + the documentation itself in \texlive. Other source files are discriminated + by extension.} + +Finally, depending on the mode, the file with the highest score is opened in a +viewer, or the list of results is shown. Usually, only results with a positive +score are displayed, except in showall mode. Results with very bad scores +(-100 and below) are never displayed. + +\medskip + +This model for searching and scoring is quite efficient, but is unfortunately +not perfect: texdoc may sometimes need a hint, either to find a relevant file +or, more likely, to recognize which of the files found is the most relevant. + +For example, assume you are looking for the documentation of the shortvrb +\latex package. Texdoc will find ©shortvrb.sty© in the ©latex© \texlive +package, but since this package contains a lot of documentation files, none of +which contains the string ©shortverb©, it will sort them basically at random. + +Here comes the notion of \emph{alias}: in the default configuration file, +©shortvrb© is aliased to ©base/doc©, so that when you type ©texdoc shortvrb©, +texdoc knows it has to look primarily for ©base/doc©. Note that texdoc will +also look for the original name, and that a name can be aliased to more than +one new name. + +\medskip + +We will soon see how you can configure this, but let's start with a few +definitions about how a file can match keyword (all matching is +case-insensitive): +\begin{enumerate} + \item The keyword is a substring of the file name. + \item The keyword is a ``subword'' of the file name; words are defined as + sequences of alphanumeric characters delimited by punctuation characters + (there is no space in file names in \texlive) and a subword is a + substring both ends of which are a word boundary. + \item The keyword matches ``exactly'' the file name: that is, the file + name is the keyword, possibly plus an extension. +\end{enumerate} + +\subsection{Alias directives}\label{ss-alias} + +\begin{htcode} + alias «original keyword» = «name» + alias(«score») «original keyword» = «name» +\end{htcode} + +You can define your own aliases in texdoc's configuration files +(see~\ref{ss-quick-file} or \ref{ss-prec}). For example, +insert\footnote{Actually, you don't need to do this, the default configuration + file already includes this directive.} +\begin{htcode} + alias shortvrb = base/doc +\end{htcode} +in order to alias ©shortvrb© to ©base/doc©. Precisely, it means that files in +the doc trees matching exactly ©base/doc© will be added to the result list +when you look for ©shortvrb©, and get a score of 10 (default score for alias +results). This is greater than the results of heuristic scoring: it means that +results found via aliases will always rank before results associated to the +original keyword. + +If you want the results associated to a particular alias to have a custom +score instead of the default 10, you can use the optional argument to the +alias directive. This can be useful if you associate many aliases to +a keyword and want one of them to show up first. + +Additionally, starting from with v0.80, aliases for ©«keyword»-«lang»©, where +©«lang»© is your preferred language's 2-letter code (as detected or +configured, see the ©lang© option) are also used for ©«keyword»© and get a +©+1© score upgrade. + +You can have a look at the configuration file provided (the last shown by +©texdoc -f©) for examples. If you feel one of the aliases you defined locally +should be added to the default configuration, please share it on the \tdml. + +Aliases are additive: if you define your own aliases for a keyword in your +configuration file, and there are also aliases for the same keyword in the +default configuration, they will add up. To prevent the default aliases +from begin applied for a particular keyword, include ©stopalias «keyword»© in +your personal configuration file. It will preserve the aliases defined before +this directive (if any) but prevent all further aliasing on this keyword. + +\textit{Remark.} Aliasing is case-insensitive, and doesn't cascade: +only aliases associated to the original keyword are used. + +\textbf{Warning.} Results found from aliases always have the score defined by +the ©alias© directive (10 by default), regardless of the adjustments described +in the next subsections. + +\subsection{Score directives}\label{ss-score} + +\begin{htcode} + adjscore «pattern» = «score adjustment» + adjscore(«keyword») «pattern» = «score adjustment» +\end{htcode} + +It is possible to adjust the score of results containing some pattern as a +subword, either globally (for the result of all searches) or only when +searching with a particular keyword. This is done in a configuration file +(\ref{ss-quick-file} or \ref{ss-prec}) using the ©adjustscore© directive. Here +are a few examples from the default configuration file. + +\begin{htcode} + adjscore /Makefile = -1000 + adjscore /tex-virtual-academy-pl/ = -50 + adjscore(tex) texdoc = -10 +\end{htcode} + +All files named ©Makefile© (and also files named ©Makefile-foo© if there are +any) are ``killed'' : by adjusting their score with such a large negative +value, their final score will most probably be less than -100, so they will +never be displayed. Files from the ©tex-virtual-academy-pl© directory, on the +other hand, are not killed but just get a malus, since they are a common +source of ``fake'' matches which hide better results (even for the lucky ones +who can read polish). + +The third directive gives a malus for results containing ©texdoc© only if the +search keyword is ©tex©. Otherwise, such results would get a high score +because the heuristic scoring would think ©texdoc© is the name of \tex's +documentation. The value -10 is enough to ensure that those results will have +a negative score, so wil not be displayed unless ``showall'' mode is active. + +\textbf{Warning}: Values of scores (like the default score for aliases, the +range of heuristic scoring, etc.) may change in a future version of texdoc. +So, don't be surprised if you need to adapt your scoring directives after a +future update of texdoc. This warning will hopefully disappear at some point. + +\subsection{File extensions and names}\label{ss-ext} + +The allowed file extensions are defined by the configuration item ©ext_list© +(default: pdf, html, htm, txt, ps, dvi, no extension). You can configure it +with a line ©ext_list = «your, list»© in a configuration file. Be aware +that it will completely override the default list, not add to it. An empty +string in the list means files without extension (no dot in the name), while a +star means any extension. + +For scoring purposes, there is also a ©badext_list© parameter: files whose +extension is ``bad'' according to this list will get a lesser score (currently +0). + +Unfortunately, sometimes what follows a dot in a file name is not a ``real'' +extension. This often happens with readme files, for example ©readme.fr© or +©readme.texlive©. So, in addition to his list of known extensions, texdoc has +a list of known basenames, by default just ©readme©. + +The corresponding settings are ©basename_list© and ©badbasename_list©; both +are similar to ©ext_list© and ©badext_list©. So, a file will be selected if +either its extension or its base name is known, and get a lesser score if +either is known to be ``bad.'' + +\subsection{Variants}\label{ss-variants} + +The documentation for a given package is often found in a file named like +©«package»-doc©. To handle this properlr, texdoc gives a special score files +named ©«package»«suffix»© where ©«suffix»© is one element of the list given by +the configuration setting ©suffix_list©. + +To customise this list, add a line with ©suffix_list = «your, list»© in a +configuration files. Be warned, it will replace the default list, no expand +it. You'll find the default list in the shipped configuration file; feel free +to suggest additions on the \tdml (with a real-life example). + +\clearpage + +\section{Full reference} + +\subsection{Precedence of configuration sources}\label{ss-prec} + +Values for a particular setting can come from several sources. The sources are +treated in the following order and the first value found is always used: +\begin{enumerate} + \item Command-line options. + \item Environment variables ending with ©_texdoc©. + \item Other environment variables. + \item Values from configuration files (see below). + \item Hard-coded defaults that may depend on the current machine. +\end{enumerate} + +The configuration files are found in the directories ©TEXMF/texdoc©, where +©TEXMF© is the kpathsea variable, in the order given by this variable. Inside +each directory, three files are recognized, in this order: +\begin{enumerate} + \item ©texdoc-«platform».cnf© where ©«platform»© is the name of the current + platform (defined as the name of the directories where the \texlive + binaries are located, for example ©x86-64-linux©). This may be useful when + an installation is shared across machines with different architectures + needing different settings, for example for viewers. Their use is not + recommended in any other situation. + \item ©texdoc.cnf© is the recommended file for normal use. + \item ©texdoc-dist.cnf© is useful for installing a newer version of texdoc + (including its default configuration file) in your home while retaining + the use of the previous file for your personal setting; see + \href{http://tug.org/texdoc/dev/}{the web page} for instructions on + running the development version. +\end{enumerate} + +\subsection{Command-line options}\label{ss-cl} + +All command-line options (except the first four below) correspond to +configuration item that can be set in the configuration files: we refer +the reader to the corresponding section for the meaning of this configuration +item. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-h, --help}{cl-h} + -h, --help +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Show a quick help message (namely a list of command-line options) and exit +successfully. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-V, --version}{cl-V} + -V, --version +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Show the current version of the program and exit successfully. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-f, --files}{cl-f} + -f, --files +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Show the list of configuration files for the current installation and +platform, with their status (active, not found, or disabled +(see~\ref{cf-lastfile_switch})) and exit successfully. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{--just-view}{cl-just-view} + --just-view «file» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Open «file» in the usual viewer. The file should be given with full path, +absolutely no searching is done. This option is not really meant for users, +but rather intended to be used from another program, like a GUI front-end to +texdoc. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-w, -l, -m, -s, --view, --list, --mixed, --showall}{cl-mode} + -w, --view, -l, --list, -m, --mixed, -s, --showall +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©mode© to the given value, see~\ref{cf-mode}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-i, -I, --interact, --nointeract}{cl-i} + -i, --interact, -I, --nointeract +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©interact_switch© to true (resp. false), see~\ref{cf-interact_switch}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-M, --machine}{cl-M} + -M, --machine +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©machine_switch© to true, see~\ref{cf-machine_switch}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-q, --quiet}{cl-q} + -q, --quiet +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©verbosity_level© to minimum, see~\ref{cf-verbosity_level}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-v, --verbose}{cl-v} + -v, --verbose +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©verbosity_level© to maximum, see~\ref{cf-verbosity_level}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{-d, --debug}{cl-d} + -d, -d=«list», --debug, --debug=«list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set ©debug_list©, see~\ref{cf-debug_list}. If no list is given, activates all +available debug items. + +\subsection{Environment variables}\label{ss-envvar} + +They all correspond to some ©viewer_«ext»© setting, and the reader is referred +to~\ref{cf-viewer_*} for details. Also, environment variables used by older +versions of texdoc are accepted. You can append ©_texdoc© to every name in +the first column: this wins over every other name. + +\begin{center} + \begin{tabular}{*4l} + New name & Old name 1 & Old name 2 & Config. item \\ + ©PAGER© & ©TEXDOCVIEW_txt© & ©TEXDOC_VIEWER_TXT© & ©viewer_txt© \\ + ©BROWSER© & ©TEXDOCVIEW_html© & ©TEXDOC_VIEWER_HTML© & ©viewer_html© \\ + ©DVIVIEWER© & ©TEXDOCVIEW_dvi© & ©TEXDOC_VIEWER_DVI© & ©viewer_dvi© \\ + ©PSVIEWER© & ©TEXDOCVIEW_ps© & ©TEXDOC_VIEWER_PS© & ©viewer_ps© \\ + ©PDFVIEWER© & ©TEXDOCVIEW_pdf© & ©TEXDOC_VIEWER_PDF© & ©viewer_pdf© \\ + \end{tabular} +\end{center} + +Also, on Unix systems, locale-related variables such as ©LANG© and ©LC_ALL© +are used for the default value of ©lang©. + +\subsection{Configuration items}\label{ss-conf} + +\subsubsection{Structure of configuration files}\label{sss-sonf-struct} + +Configuration files are line-oriented text files. Comments begin with a ©#© +and run to the end of line. Lines containing only space are ignored. Space at +the beginning or end of a line, as well as around an ©=© sign, is ignored. +Apart from comments and empty lines, each line must be of one of the following +forms. + +\begin{htcode} + «configuration item» = «value» + alias «original keyword» = «name» + alias(«score») «original keyword» = «name» + stopalias «original keyword» + adjscore «pattern» = «score adjustment» + adjscore(«keyword») «pattern» = «score adjustment» +\end{htcode} + +We will concentrate on the ©«configuration item»© part here, since other +directives have already been presented (\ref{ss-alias} and \ref{ss-score}). + +In the above, ©«value»© never needs to be quoted: quotes would be interpreted +as part of the value, not as quotation marks (this also holds for the other +directives). + +Lines which do not obey these rules raise a warning, as well as unrecognised +values of ©«configuration item»©. The ©«value»© can be an arbitrary string, +except when the name of the ©«configuration item»© ends with: +\begin{enumerate} + \item ©_list©, then ©«value»© is a coma-separated list of strings. Space + around commas is ignored. Two consecutive comas or a coma at the beginning + or end of the list means the empty string at the corresponding place. + \item ©_switch©, then ©«value»© must be either ©true© or ©false© + (lowercase). + \item ©_level©, then ©«value»© is an integer. +\end{enumerate} +In these cases, an improper ©«value»© will raise a warning too. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{mode}{cf-mode} + mode = «view, list, mixed, showall» +\end{cmdsubsub} +Set the mode to the given value. Default is ©view©. The various modes +have been presented in~\ref{ss-modes}. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{interact}{cf-interact_switch} + interact_switch = «true, false» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Turn on or off interaction. Default is on. Turning interaction off prevents +texdoc from asking you to choose a file to view when there are multiple +choices, so it just prints the list of files found. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{suffix_list}{cf-suffix_list} + suffix_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of known suffixes to ©«list»© (see~\ref{ss-variants}). Default is +the empty list, but see the shipped configuration file for more. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{ext_list}{cf-ext_list} + ext_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of recognised extensions to ©«list»©. Default is +\begin{htcode} + pdf, html, htm, txt, dvi, ps, +\end{htcode} +This list is used to filter and sort the results that have the same +score(with the default value: pdf first, etc). Two special values are +recognised: +\begin{itemize} + \item \emph{The empty element}. This means files without extensions, or more + precisely without a dot in their name. This is meant for files like + ©README©, etc. The file is assumed to be plain text for viewing purpose. + \item ©*© means any extension. Of course if it is present in the list, it + can be the only element! +\end{itemize} + +There is a very special case: if the searched ©«name»© has ©.sty© extension, +texdoc enters a special search mode for ©.sty© files (not located in the same +place as real documentation files) for this ©«name»©, independently of the +current value of ©ext_list© and ©mode©. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be +necessary since every sty file would have a proper documentation in pdf, html +or plain text, but\dots + +For each ©«ext»© in ©ext_list© there should be a corresponding ©viewer_«ext»© +value set. Defaults are defined corresponding to the default ©ext_list©, but +you can add values if you want. For example, if you want texdoc to be able +to find man pages and display them with the ©man© command, you can use +\begin{htcode} + ext_list = pdf, html, htm, 1, 5, txt, dvi, ps, + viewer_1 = man + viewer_5 = man +\end{htcode} + +As a special case, if the extension is ©sty©, then the ©txt© viewer is used; +similarly, if it is ©htm© the ©html© viewer is used. Otherwise, the ©txt© +viewer is used and a warning is issued. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{badext_list}{cf-badext_list} + badext_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of ``bad'' extensions to ©«list»©. Default is ``©txt,©''. Files +with those extensions get a malus of ©1© on their heurisitc score if it was +previously positive. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{basename_list}{cf-basename_list} + basename_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of ``known'' base names to ©«list»©. Default is ``©readme©''. +Files with those base names are selected regardless of their extension. If the +extension is unknown, the text viewer will be used to view the file. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{badbasename_list}{cf-badbasename_list} + badbasename_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of ``bad'' base names to ©«list»©. Default is ``©readme©''. Files +with those names get a malus of ©1© on their heurisitc score if it was +previously positive. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{viewer_*}{cf-viewer_*} + viewer_«ext» = «cmd» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the viewer command for files with extension ©«ext»© to ©«cmd»©. For files +without extension, ©viewer_txt© is used, and there's no ©viewer_© variable. +In ©«cmd»©, ©%s© can be used as a placeholder for the file name, which is +otherwise inserted at the end of the command. The command can be a arbitrary +shell construct. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{lang}{cf-lang} + lang = «2-letter code» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set you preferred language. Defaults to your system's locale. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{verbosity_level}{cf-verbosity_level} + verbosity_level = «n» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the verbosity level to ©«n»© (default: 2). At level~3, errors, warnings and +informational messages will be printed on stderr; 2 means only errors and +warnings, 1 only errors and 0 nothing except internal errors (obviously not +recommended). + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{debug_list}{cf-debug_list} + debug_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the list of activated debug items (default: none; if the command-line +option is used without arguments, the list defaults to all known debug items). +Implies ©--verbose©. Debug information is printed on standard error. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{max_line}{cf-max_lines} + max_lines = «number» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Set the maximum number of results to be printed without confirmation in list, +mixed or showall mode (default: 20). This setting has no effect if interaction +is disabled. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{machine_switch}{cf-machine_switch} + machine_switch = «true, false» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Turn on or off machine-readable output (default: off). With this option +active, the value of ©interact_switch© is forced to ©false©, and each line of +output is +\begin{htcode} + «argument»\t«score»\t«filename» +\end{htcode} +where ©«argument»© is the name of the argument to which the results correspond +(mainly useful if there were many arguments), ©\t© is the tab (ascii 9) +character, and the other entries are pretty self-explanatory. Nothing else is +printed on stdout, except if a internal error occurs (in which case exit code +will be 1). In the future, more tab-separated fields may be added at the end +of the line, but the first 3 fields will remain unchanged. + +Currently, there are two additional fields: a two-letter language code, and an +unstructured description, both taken from the CTAN catalogue (via the \texlive +database). These fields may be empty and they are not guaranteed to keep the +same meaning in future versions of texdoc. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{zipext_list}{cf-zipext_list} + zipext_list = «list» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +List of supported extensions for zipped files (default: empty). Allows +compressed files with names like ©foobar.«zip»©, with ©«zip»© in the given +©«list»©, to be found and unzipped before the viewer is started (the +temporary file will be destroyed right after). + +\textbf{Warning.} Support for zipped documentation is not meant to work on +windows, a Unix shell is assumed! If you add anything to this list, please +make sure that you also set a corresponding ©unzip=«ext»© value for each +©«ext»© in the list. Also make sure you are using blocking (i.e. not returning +immediately) viewers. + +\textit{Remark.} \texlive doesn't ship compressed documentation files, so +this option is mainly useful with re-packaged version of \texlive that do, +for example in Linux distributions. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{unzip_*}{cf-unzip_star} + unzip_«zipext» = «command» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +The unzipping command for compressed files with extension ©«zipext»© (default: +none). Define one for each item in ©zipext_list©. The command must print +the result on stdout, like ©gzip -d -c© does. + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{rm_file, rm_dir}{cf-rm_star} + rm_file = «command» + rm_dir = «command» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +Commands for removing files (resp. directories) on your system (defaults: +©rm -f© and ©rmdir©). Only useful for zipped documents (see ©zipext_list©). + +\begin{cmdsubsub}{lastfile_switch}{cf-lastfile_switch} + lastfile_switch = «true, false» +\end{cmdsubsub} + +If set to true, prevents texdoc from reading any other configuration file +after this one (they will be reported as ``disabled'' by ©texdoc -f©). Mainly +useful for installing a newer version of texdoc in your home and preventing +the default configuration file from older versions to be used (see the +\href{http://tug.org/texdoc/}{web site} for instructions on how to do so). + +\subsection{Exit codes}\label{ss-exit} + +The current exit codes are: +\begin{enumerate}[start=0] + \item Success. + \item Internal error. + \item Usage error. +\end{enumerate} + +\section{Licence}\label{s-licence} + +The current texdoc program and its documentation are copyright 2008, 2009 +Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard. + +They are free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the +terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software +Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later +version. + +This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but +\emph{without any warranty}; without even the implied warranty of +\emph{merchantability} or \emph{fitness for a particular purpose}. See the +GNU General Public License for more details. + +You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with +this program. If not, see \url{http://www.gnu.org/licenses/}. + +\bigskip + +Previous work (texdoc program) in the public domain: +\begin{itemize} + \item Contributions from Reinhard Kotucha (2008). + \item First texlua versions by Frank Küster (2007). + \item Original shell script by Thomas Esser, David Aspinall, and Simon + Wilkinson. +\end{itemize} + +\bigskip +\begin{center}\Large\rmfamily\bfseries + Happy \tex{}ing! +\end{center} + +\end{document} |