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texdoc(1)		      teTeX			texdoc(1)

NAME
       texdoc - Utility to look up TeX documentation

SYNOPSIS
       texdoc [ OPTION ... ]  NAME [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION
       texdoc  seaches	for  NAME  in  the  TeX documentation and
       starts an appropriate viewer.

       NAME should be the name of a command  or	 package  in  the
       teTeX distribution.

OPTIONS
       --help Display a brief summary of options.

       -l     List matching files.  Does not start a viewer.

       -v     Sets verbose mode.  Shows the command being used to
	      display the documentation.

ENVIRONMENT
       $TEXDOCVIEW_dvi
	      DVI viewer.  Defaults to xdvi(1).

       $TEXDOCVIEW_pdf
	      PDF viewer.  Defaults to acroread(1).

       $TEXDOCVIEW_ps
	      PostScript viewer.  Defaults to ghostview(1).

       $TEXDOCVIEW_html
	      HTML viewer.  Defaults to netscape(1).

       $TEXDOCVIEW_txt
	      Text viewer.  Defaults to $PAGER-more.

       The environment variables should be set with a ``%s'' as a
       placeholder for the name of the file.  For example,

	      hostname% setenv TEXDOCVIEW_pdf "gv %s"

       or

	      hostname$ TEXDOCVIEW_html="mozilla %s"

	      hostname$ export TEXDOCVIEW_html

FILES
       texdoc.cnf
	      default configuration file

SEE ALSO
       acroread(1),   gv(1),   kpsewhich(1),   less(1),	 more(1),
       xdvi(1)

       Web page: <http://tug.cs.umb.edu/tetex/>

BUGS
       None known, but report any bugs found  to  <tetex@dbs.uni-
       hannover.de> (mailing list).

AUTHOR
       texdoc	was  written  by  Thomas  Esser	 <te@dbs.uni-han-
       nover.de>, David	 Aspinall  <da@dcs.ed.ac.uk>,  and  Simon
       Wilkinson <sxw@dcs.ed.ac.uk> during 1998 and 1999.  texdoc
       is in the public domain.

       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).

teTeX			  September 2000		texdoc(1)

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