[tex-live] searching help for files w/o documentation

George N. White III gnwiii at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 21:22:08 CET 2008


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> [texlive rev. 11633]
>
> If I type
>
>  texdoc CJKnumb
>
> I get this message:
>
>  texdoc info: No exact match, trying full search mode.
>  Sorry, no documentation found for CJKnumb.
>  If you are unsure about the name, try searching CTAN's TeX catalogue at
>  http://ctan.org/search.html#byDescription.
>
> What about adding the following sentence or something similar:
>
>  You might also look up the source code in case you know the exact
>  file name; provided that file `CJKnumb.sty' exists, try
>
>    texdoc CJKnumb.sty

After texdoc has failed why not try a full-text search using a tool
like Apple's spotlight, beagle, namazu2, strigi, tracker, recoll, etc.?
Some of these are TeX-friendly, and some have GUI front-ends.


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George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia


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