texdoc(1)

1TEXDOC(1)                        Texdoc manual                       TEXDOC(1)
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NAME

6       texdoc - find & view documentation in TeX Live
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SYNOPSIS

9       texdoc [OPTION]... NAME...
10       texdoc [OPTION]... ACTION
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DESCRIPTION

13       Try  to  find  appropriate TeX documentation for the specified NAME(s).
14       Alternatively, perform the given ACTION and exit.
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OPTIONS

17       -w, --view
18              Use view mode: start a viewer. (default)
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21              Use mixed mode (view or list).
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23       -l, --list
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48              Activate debug output restricted to the categories specified  in
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50              Available  categories:  config,  files,  search, score, texdocs,
51              tlpdb, version, view, and all to activate all of these.
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53       -c NAME=VALUE
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ACTIONS

57       -h, --help
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66       --just-view FILE
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ENVIRONMENT

70       The following environment variables can be split by colon and  used  to
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73       BROWSER, BROWSER_texdoc
74              Set the command to be used for HTML documents.
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77              Set the command to be used for DVI documents.
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80              Set the command to be used for Markdown documents.
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83              Set the command to be used for text documents.
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86              Set the command to be used for PDF documents.
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89              Set the command to be used for PS documents.
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91       The following environment variables are also used:
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93       LANG, LC_ALL and so on
94              Set the locale (which will influence on the search results).
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97              In  addition to the documents included in the TeX Live database,
98              Texdoc also searches documentation under TEXMF  trees  specified
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FILES

102       <texmf>/texdoc/texdoc.cnf, see output of the --files option.
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EXIT STATUS

105       The texdoc command exists with one of the following values:
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107       0      Success.
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REPORTING BUGS

116       Report bugs to texdoc@tug.org.
117       Texdoc home page: http://tug.org/texdoc/
118       Source: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texdoc
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COPYRIGHT

121       Copyright  2008-2020 Manuel Pe´gourie´-Gonnard, Takuto Asakura, the TeX
122       Live Team.
123       License: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
124       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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