Re: 2.99.3 beta and texdoc on macosx

Gerben Wierda <[email protected]> Thu, 25 Nov 2004 21:45:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 25 Nov 2004, at 21:38, Sven de Vries wrote:

> Hi Gerben,
>
>> It seems that you will need to replace 'open' with xdvi in your texdoc
>> script.
>
> thanks, that works!
>
> shouldn't this be changed in the distribution too?

No. My distribution's default environment is without X11 (standard Mac 
OS X install does not have X11). Thus

> (or is there an easy way to associate with dvi-files the xdvi-viewer?)

Not the xdvi-viewer, but you can use a forntend like TeXShop or iTeXMac 
and associate with that. A DVI->PDF translation will be performed 
automatically

>
> sven
>