texdoc topic

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi,

if you are a bit more verbose and type "texdoc texbytopic", it does
what you wish. And if you do it frequently, you can set an alias by

alias topic="texdoc texbytopic"

It works both on Linux and Mac but Mac can have several schemes in the
termina so you must be careful to put this definition to the correct
file. You will then type just topic.


Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

po 9. 9. 2019 v 16:07 odesílatel jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> napsal:
>
> Hi,
>
> For many years texdoc topic opened TeX by Topic, or so I think.
>
> Currently I get
>
> $ texdoc -l topic
>  1 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bibtopic/bibtopic.pdf
>    = Package documentation
>  2 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bibtopicprefix/bibtopicprefix.pdf
>    = Package documentation
>  3 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/topiclongtable/topiclongtable-doc.pdf
>    = Package documentation
>  4 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/plain/texbytopic/TeXbyTopic.pdf
>    = The book itself
>  5 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/topiclongtable/README.md
>    = Readme
>  6 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bibtopic/README
>    = Readme
>  7 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/plain/texbytopic/README
>    = Readme
>  8 /somepath/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/latex/bibtopicprefix/README
>
>
> This being said, my experience might be related to my laptop
> (not the computer I use now) where I have it in $HOME/.texmf (or the Mac OS equivalent)
> thus perhaps my experience is wrong and the above is typical.
>
>
> I would argue that "texdoc topic" should by default open TeX by Topic
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-François
>
>