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6 texdoc - find & view documentation in TeX Live
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9 texdoc [OPTION]... NAME...
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13 Try to find appropriate TeX documentation for the specified NAME(s).
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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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24 Use list mode: show a list of results.
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36 Machine-readable output for lists (implies -I).
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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,
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73 BROWSER, BROWSER_texdoc
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97 In addition to the documents included in the TeX Live database,
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105 The texdoc command exists with one of the following values:
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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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121 Copyright 2008-2021 Manuel PeĀ“gourieĀ“-Gonnard, Takuto Asakura, the TeX
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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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127 The full documentation is maintained as a PDF manual. The command
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139Texdoc 3.3 March 2021 TEXDOC(1)