[tex-live] TeX Live Installer -- pregeneration of formats

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Karl Berry scripsit (08.06.2008 23:20)
> Instead of forcing the user to "configure" something (few will), I
> suggest having texdoc by default dynamically check along PATH for a
> suitable program (see, evince, xpdf, sumatra, whatever).  Of course, if
> a specific program is chosen by the user, that should just be used.
> 
Oh, I thought texdoc was already doing that.  At home, it works make default
choices that are ok for me (xpdf, xdvi, firefox...)  At work, I have the older
(non-texlua) version and configure things via TEXDOCVIEW_pdf and so on,
because I don't like the defaults (acroread etc).

> I think this single change would make texdoc dramatically more
> accessible.  I might even use it myself sometimes :).
> 
How do you access the doc atm?  I couldn't live without texdoc myself.

> Manuel (or anyone), is that something you'd like to work on?
> 
Yep, unless someone else wants to do it before me.  I'll look at the code and
texlua doc for relevant functions for searching in the path, and try it soon.

Manuel.