Denis Barbier writes: > Every (te)TeX distribution has its preferred documentation format. well, its often dictated by the package author, but no matter > Order in which formats are parsed is actually hardcoded in texdoc, which > i do not like. To fit your needs you only have to edit texmf.cnf without > patching texdoc, e.g. > TEXDOCSSUFFIX = :.html:.dvi:.doc But if my preference is .dvi followed by .html, and my .dvi files are compressed, I will get the .html before the .dvi.gz. That is surely counter-intuitive? > > > There is one funny drawback: temporary file is removed before viewer is > > > launched, but this should be easy to fix. > > sounds a bit fundamental... > > Yes, but it will imply some changes in current texdoc's behaviour, so > Thomas will decide what is _the_ answer. I think Thomas has publicly said that he is *NOT* developing teTeX at present; it would be nice to get a working solution on our own... Sebastian
- [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped documentations) Didier Verna
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Sebastian Rahtz
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Thomas Esser
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped docu... Didier Verna
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Denis Barbier
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Sebastian Rahtz
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Sebastian Rahtz
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped docu... Thomas Ruedas
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Denis Barbier
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Thomas Esser
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped docu... Denis Barbier
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Thomas Esser
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped docu... Denis Barbier
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Olaf Weber
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped docu... ALAN A DUNWELL
- Re: [PATCH] texdoc and xdvi (Re: [Q] gzipped document... Sebastian Rahtz