ad-hoc texdoc

published on Sunday, February 5, 2017

Archlinux does not include documentation for tex packages. Therefore, native texdoc does not work:

% texdoc siunitx
Sorry, no documentation found for siunitx.
If you are unsure about the name, try searching CTAN's TeX catalogue at
http://ctan.org/search.html#byDescription.

Consider using this (very primitive) replacement for texdoc:

function texdoc
{
    prefix=$HOME/.cache/texdoc
    url=http://texdoc.net/pkg/$1
    mkdir -p $prefix
    cache=$prefix/$(basename $url) && (
    if [[ ! -e $cache ]]; then
        wget $url -O $cache
    fi
    ) &&
    evince $cache
}

It will download documentation from CTAN and save it in ~/.cache/texdoc/ folder for future use.

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