Texdoc - development version

Download

git clone git://github.com/mpg/texdoc.git (first time)
git pull (later, in the directory created first time)

Alternatively, without git: current master (zip, tar.gz) current texlive branch (zip, tar.gz).

Installation

Here, TEXDOC means the path to texdoc sources (either the git repo or an extracted archive), and TEXMFHOME denotes your personal texmf tree (you can get its location with kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME).

• The command. Symlink or copy TEXDOC/script as TEXMFHOME/scripts/texdoc.
• The configuration file. Symlink or copy TEXDOC/texdoc.cnf as TEXMFHOME/texdoc/texdoc-dist.cnf (notice the -dist part). It will completely override the other configuration files except TEXMFHOME/texdoc/texdoc.cnf which you can still use for you personal settings.

You can make sure that the right files are used by running texdoc --files: the first line contains the full path to the version of texdoclib used, and the rest lists the configuration files in use.

Warning. The above instructions hold only if your system ships texdoc 0.81 or newer (first distributed with TeX Live 2011), which will automatically find and use the script in TEXMFHOME. For older versions on Unix, you had to override the texdoc executable which linked directly to the script in TEXMFMAIN. If you're in this case, please consult the pre-0.81 instructions.