[OS X TeX] texdoc

John Burt burt at brandeis.edu
Thu Jun 15 09:21:12 EDT 2017


Yesterday I had no problem using texdoc with MacTeX 2016. I just updated
the TeX Live Utility, and suddenly I have having the reported problem with
texdoc.
John

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
wrote:

>
> > On Jun 14, 2017, at 8:53 PM, Christopher Skeels <
> Chris.Skeels at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Since upgrading to the most recent version of MacTeX I am seeing the
> following error if I try to use the texdoc command in a terminal window:
> >
> > [machine-name]:~ folder$ texdoc enumitem
> > [string "/usr/local/texlive/2017/texmf-dist/scripts/te..."]:467:
> attempt to call a nil value
> >
> > I should point out that this is true for all packages that I have tried,
> not just enumitem.  Is anybody else seeing this?  Google didn’t reveal
> anything that seemed especially relevant.  Does anybody have an idea of how
> to fix the problem, because losing the texdoc command would be very
> inconvenient.
> >
> > Cheers, Chris.
>
> Howdy,
>
> As with others responses I'm not seeing a problem with texdoc.
>
> What OS version are you using? Even though I didn't even have that problem
> with early testing releases of TeX Live 2017 (pretest) please try to update
> all packages using TeX Live Utility to make sure everything is up to date.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
>
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