[OS X TeX] Man and info pages in gwTeX

Bernhard Barkow bb at creativeeyes.at
Sun May 8 11:23:11 EDT 2005


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On 8. Mai 2005, at 16:39, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> Are there specific reasons why info and man pages are not added to  
>> the corresponding default paths, in the same way as for the bin  
>> executables, when the TeX and GS i-Packages are installed? Is this  
>> security-connected?
>>
>
> ISTR that you are no longer supposed to set MANPATH directly, as  
> the system handles this for you by searching next to bin  
> directories (e.g. if your PATH has /usr/local/bin, it will search / 
> usr/local/man automatically).  See the manual pages for manpath or  
> man(1).  I find that even though the manpath command reports /usr/ 
> local/teTeX/man as part of the search path, I don't get any teTeX  
> man pages unless I add /usr/local/teTeX/bin to PATH.  Is this a  
> Tiger-only problem?

Hi,

that's no solution for you, but just FYI: my path contains only /usr/ 
local/teTeX, not /usr/local/teTeX/bin, manpath also reports /usr/ 
local/teTeX/man - but man finds the correct man page files.
I did a clean install of Tiger, and reinstalled teTeX over the old  
installation (it's not on the OS partition), so I guess it's not  
directly Tiger-related?
Stupid question: are your man pages in the correct loacation (e.g., / 
usr/local/teTeX/man/man1/latex.1)?

Bernhard

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