[Pkg-texlive-maint] Re: viewer for texdoc

[Jörg Sommer]

Hallo Norbert,

Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Son, 07 Mai 2006, Jörg Sommer wrote:
>> texdoc requests viewers for the found documents. Is it possible that
>> texdoc looks for some different viewers. For example, the default pdf
>
> The version -2 will call
> 	see
> in any case, so you can adjust your preferenfces using mailcap. This is
> the same approach as taken from tetex.

Good.

>> BTW: It would be nice, if texlive-base-bin would insert any entry in the
>> mime database (update-mime from mime-support)
>
> I don't understand what you mean, but texdoc now will call see which in
> turn checks the mailcap entries.

The mime database misses an entry to handle application/x-dvi.

% grep dvi /etc/mailcap
zsh: exit 1     grep dvi /etc/mailcap

The texlive-base-bin package should register xdvi as viewer, e.g. create
a file texlive-base-bin.mime with

application/x-dvi; /usr/bin/xdvi %s; description=TeX DVI;
  test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; nametemplate=%s.dvi; priority=5

and call dh_installmime.

Have a nice day, Jörg.
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