[OS X TeX] Trouble accessing beamer docs

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On Feb 25 2008, at 21:33, Rowland McDonnell wrote:

> I've come across a problem accessing documentation with MacTeX 2007.
>
> I've not moved any of the standard installed components: everything is
> where it was installed (G4 iMac, 10.4.11).
>
> texdoc beamer in Terminal.app opens the following file in Firefox.app:
>
> file://localhost/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/english/catalogue/
> entries/beamer.html
>
> If I click on Documentation->Read documentation for this package from:
> bearmeruserguide.pdf, I get this message:
>
> Firefox can't find the file at
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/.
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-doc/doc/ exists, but contains no macros/
> directory; it contains directories named after languages from  
> bulgarian
> to vietnamese.
>
> The beamer documentation exists at this location:
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/doc/latex/beamer/doc/ 
> beameruserguide.
> pdf
>
> Anyone got any thoughts?
>
> Rowland.
>


For what it is worth, I just today had the same problem with the Pgf/ 
Tikz manual.

Best, Mark