Bug#427443: provide a documentation index (like tetex had)

[Frank Küster]

Drew Parsons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Would it be possible to make appropriate alterations to make texlive
 documentation easier to access?

There's a script in teTeX which produced the index.  It shouldn't be too
hard to adapt it to teXlive, but I fear the existing team members of the
TeX Task Force won't have time for that soon.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

Bug#427443: provide a documentation index (like tetex had)

[Drew Parsons]

Package: texlive-extra
Version: 2007-3
Severity: normal

If I remember correctly, the docs for tetex included a html summary
file which contained links to the dvi docs for the various packages
included with tetex.

This doc file was registered under doc-base which made it very
convenient to use dhelp and the TeX section to quickly check the
documentation for a particular package.

This convenience appears to have gone in texlive. I can see that
various pdf and dvi files are placed under the various
/usr/share/doc/texlive-* directories, but there's no unified way of
getting to them and no straightforward access from dhelp.

Would it be possible to make appropriate alterations to make texlive
documentation easier to access?

Drew


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