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texdoc: find & view documentation in TeX Live

NAME

texdoc - find & view documentation in TeX Live

SYNOPSIS

texdoc [OPTION]... NAME...
texdoc [OPTION]... ACTION

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

-w, --view
Use view mode: start a viewer. (default)
-m, --mixed
Use mixed mode (view or list).
-l, --list
Use list mode: show a list of results.
-s, --showall
Use showall mode: show also "bad" results.
-i, --interact
Use interactive menus. (default)
-I, --nointeract
Use plain lists, no interaction required.
-M, --machine
Machine-readable output for lists (implies -I).
-q, --quiet
Suppress warnings and most error messages.
-v, --verbose
Print additional information (e.g., viewer command).
-D, --debug
Activate all debug output (equal to "--debug=all").
-d LIST, --debug=LIST
Activate debug output restricted to the categories specified in LIST.
Available categories: config, files, search, score, texdocs, tlpdb, version, view, and all to activate all of these.
-c NAME=VALUE
Set configuration item NAME to VALUE.

ACTIONS

-h, --help
Print this help message.
-V, --version
Print the version number.
-f, --files
Print the list of configuration files used.
--just-view FILE
Display FILE, given with full path (no searching).

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables can be split by colon and used to set viewers:
BROWSER, BROWSER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for HTML documents.
DVIVIEWER, DVIVIEWER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for DVI documents.
MDVIEWER, MDVIEWER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for Markdown documents.
PAGER, PAGER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for text documents.
PDFVIEWER, PDFVIEWER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for PDF documents.
PSVIEWER, PSVIEWER_texdoc
Set the command to be used for PS documents.

The following environment variables are also used:

LANG, LC_ALL and so on
Set the locale (which will influence on the search results).
TEXDOCS
In addition to the documents included in the TeX Live database, Texdoc also searches documentation under TEXMF trees specified by the kpathsea variable TEXDOCS.

FILES

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

EXIT STATUS

The texdoc command exists with one of the following values:
0
Success.
1
Internal error.
2
Usage error.
3
No documentation found.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to texdoc [at] tug.org.
Texdoc home page: http://tug.org/texdoc/
Source: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texdoc

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2008-2021 Manuel Pe'gourie'-Gonnard, Takuto Asakura, the TeX Live Team.
License: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.

SEE ALSO

The full documentation is maintained as a PDF manual. The command
texdoc texdoc

should give you access to the complete manual.