Re: Documentation on the command-line?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> I'm trying to find the documentation of "fancyhdr", part of "Texlive",
> and I've tried -
> ╭────
> │man fancyhdr
> │info fancyhdr
> │show fancyhdr
> ╰────
>
> but its failing on all of them.
>
> So how do I get the documentation for an emacs or a latex package to
> show on the command-line please?

If you've got texlive-doc (or similarly-named package) installed, the
texdoc command-line utility is what you want. It opens up the PDF
documentation for a package, which is arguably a really annoying way to
read documentation, but that's what Texlive comes with. So "texdoc
fancyhdr" might do it.