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.TH "texdoc" "1" "September 2000" "teTeX" "teTeX" 
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.SH "NAME" 
texdoc \- Utility to look up TeX documentation
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.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
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\fBtexdoc\fP [ \fIOPTION\fP \&.\&.\&. ]  \fINAME\fP [ \&.\&.\&. ]
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.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
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\fBtexdoc\fP searches for \fINAME\fP in the TeX documentation and
starts an appropriate viewer\&.
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\fINAME\fP should be the name of a command or package in the teTeX
distribution\&.
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.SH "OPTIONS" 
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.IP "\fB--help\fP" 
Display a brief summary of options\&.
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.IP "\fB-l\fP" 
List matching files\&.  Does not start a viewer\&.
.IP "\fB-v\fP" 
Sets verbose mode\&.  Shows the command being used to
display the documentation\&.
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.SH "ENVIRONMENT" 
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.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_dvi\fP" 
DVI viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBxdvi\fP(1)\&.
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_pdf\fP" 
PDF viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBacroread\fP(1)\&.
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_ps\fP" 
PostScript viewer\&.  Defaults to
\fBghostview\fP(1)\&.
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_html\fP" 
HTML viewer\&.  Defaults to \fBnetscape\fP(1)\&.
.IP "\fB$TEXDOCVIEW_txt\fP" 
Text viewer\&.  Defaults to \fB$PAGER-more\fP\&.
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The environment variables should be set with a ``%s\&'\&' as a placeholder
for the name of the file\&.  For example,
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hostname% setenv TEXDOCVIEW_pdf "gv %s"
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or
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hostname$ TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s"
 
hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html
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.SH "SEE ALSO" 
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\fBacroread\fP(1), \fBgv\fP(1), \fBkpsewhich\fP(1),
\fBless\fP(1), \fBmore\fP(1), \fBxdvi\fP(1)
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Web page: <http://tug\&.org/teTeX/>
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.SH "BUGS" 
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None known, but report any bugs found to <tetex@dbs\&.uni-hannover\&.de> (mailing list)\&.
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.SH "AUTHOR" 
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\fBtexdoc\fP was written by Thomas Esser 
<te@dbs\&.uni-hannover\&.de>, David Aspinall 
<da@dcs\&.ed\&.ac\&.uk>, and
Simon Wilkinson
<sxw@dcs\&.ed\&.ac\&.uk> during 1998 and 1999\&.  \fBtexdoc\fP is in the public
domain\&.
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This manual page was written by C\&.M\&. Connelly
<c@eskimo\&.com>, for
the Debian GNU/Linux system\&.  It may be used by other distributions
without contacting the author\&.  Any mistakes or omissions in the
manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this
manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author)\&.