More texdoc requests

[Mats Bengtsson]

In addition to the feature requests for texdoc, 
I have one more request. Sometimes you want to 
printout some package documentation on paper. 
I'd like to see a texdoc option that invokes
dvips on .dvi files to generate a postscript
file, either storing it on file or sending it
directly to a printer (or one option for each 
of these two possibilities). Often, you may 
just want to print the first pages with the
manual and the not the last pages with the
annotated source code of the package. This 
can easily be handled by opening a postscript
version of the document in gv/ghostview and 
selecting only the interesting pages. 

In the meantime, I'll have to live with an alias for
dvips `kpsewhich --format='TeX system documentation' packagename.dvi`

Regards

/Mats

Re: More texdoc requests

[Hans Fredrik Nordhaug]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Mats Bengtsson wrote:

 In addition to the feature requests for texdoc,
 I have one more request. Sometimes you want to
 printout some package documentation on paper.
 I'd like to see a texdoc option that invokes
 dvips on .dvi files to generate a postscript
 file, either storing it on file or sending it
 directly to a printer (or one option for each
 of these two possibilities).
[cut]

I agree - this is useful, but we kind of have it already:

 In the meantime, I'll have to live with an alias for
 dvips `kpsewhich --format='TeX system documentation' packagename.dvi`

What about 'texdoc -l packagename'. You could make an alias
of the following form:

 dvips `texdoc -l packagename` -o

Hans


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