[texdoc] pkfix-helper doc
Takuto ASAKURA
tkt.asakura at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 11:20:42 CEST 2020
Hi Bruno,
I have already fix Texdoc to show the pkfix-helper.man1.pdf first in
the dev version:
https://github.com/TeX-Live/texdoc/commit/eeb2a90bb820191ce4b15d62677cb41f57d590f4
I am sorry but I would appreciate it if you could kindly wait for the
next public release.
> Looking at the README, the documentation is pkfix-helper.pdf, and comparing with CTAN this
> pkfix-helper.pdf lives in TeX Live as pkfix-helper.man1.pdf.
I think this is another issue outside of Texdoc. Karl, do you have
any good idea to solve this mislinking in the README?
Best,
Takuto
> On 2020/08/02, at 18:09, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at icloud.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Takuto (or whoever else is monitoring this list),
>
> This is a follow-up to my message of last April, on pkfix-helper. (Actually I had forgotten about it, and realized the issue by starting to use pkfix-helper again today.)
>
> Here's what texdoc gives right now (with MacTeX 2020, kept up-to-date with TeX Live Utility):
>
> % texdoc -l -I pkfix-helper
> 1 /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/support/pkfix-helper/encoding-samples.pdf
> = Encoding tables and how to use them
> 2 /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/support/pkfix-helper/README
> = Readme
> 3 /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/pkfix-helper.man1.pdf
>
> texdoc opens encoding-samples.pdf, which says "See the pkfix-helper documentation for details". Looking at the README, the documentation is pkfix-helper.pdf, and comparing with CTAN this pkfix-helper.pdf lives in TeX Live as pkfix-helper.man1.pdf.
>
> So the file picked up by texdoc should really be
>
> doc/man/man1/pkfix-helper.man1.pdf
>
> Sorry to always be the bringer of bad news!
>
> Bruno
>
> PS Not that it is of any importance, but just for context: yesterday I realized the existence of an online repository of cover-to-cover translations of Russian geophysical journals <http://eos.wdcb.ru/transl/>, for the two years (1994-1995) that these translations were published by the American Geophysical Union. The repository has not been updated since 1996. The papers (some of which I have used for my own activity, based on low-quality photocopies) are in old-style PS format, prepared with dvips 5.58. So pkfix-helper is mandatory to get good PDF versions.
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