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Matteo Gamboz edited this page Dec 2, 2019 · 1 revision

Info nodes

Info files are used to display the documentation of commands. Digestif uses the info command line utility to fetch the info pages. If you install LaTeX though your standard package manager, info nodes should already be visible info and thus by digestif.

If this does not happen, you might need to tweak the environment variable "INFOPATH". Info nodes are searched for in a list of directories and this list is defined by "INFOPATH".

If you install texlive (without your distro's package manager), the latex2e info file is usually in /usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/info. You can make it visible to digestif by adding something like the following to your .bashrc:

    export INFOPATH="/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH"

If you use emacs as your editor, customizing the variable Info-directory-list also works:

    (add-to-list 'Info-directory-list "/usr/local/texlive/2019/texmf-dist/doc/info")
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