Hi Hilmar, Thank you for your response.
On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 10:01 PM Hilmar Preuße <hill...@web.de> wrote: > Am 08.09.2007 um 10:26 teilte Ryo Furue mit: > > Hi Ryo, > > > Hi, I thought it would be helpful if the manpage of latex mentioned > > that "latex -help" will give a list of command line options. Better > > still, it would be nice if the list itself is found in the manpage. > > > > Experienced Unix/Linux users expect to find, at the very least, > > command line options in the manpage. > > > Please note the sentence right at the top of the page: > > DESCRIPTION > This manual page is a mere skeleton. > I would think that this statement is too vague to the user. Where can the user find the details of the "latex" command such as command line options? > > Further below we have: > > SEE ALSO > amstex(1), luatex(1), pdftex(1), ptex(1), tex(1), xetex(1). > > , where luatex(1) & pdftex(1) contain an extensive listing of all > possible options. I see. In that case, I suggest including THIS information (that "luatex(1) and pdftex(1) contain an extensive listing of all possible options") in the manpage of the "latex" command. Mentioning the "-help" option would be nice, too, I would think. > I don't really intend to duplicate them in latex(1). > Experienced users will be able to see the "SEE ALSO" section and look at > the manual pages of the other commands. > But, there doesn't seem to be information that the same options apply to the "latex" command as to luatex and pdftex . I suggest to close the issue as "solved elsewehere". What do you think? > I would think that the problem is that the user cannot know what she will find in the documents of the commands listed under "SEE ALSO". Cheers, Ryo
