mthelp — MiKTeX help utility
mthelp
[option
...] {name
...}
mthelp is a utility to lookup TeX package documentation.
mthelp creates an HTML page which contains a short description of the package together with links to all documentation files. An HTML viewer is started to view the page.
You can use the --view
to bypass the intermediate
HTML file.
name
should be the name of a package
in the TeX distribution.
--list-only
List documentation files, but do not start a viewer.
--print-only
Print the command that would be executed to view the documentation, but do not start the command.
--quiet
Suppress all output, except errors.
--version
Show version information and exit.
--view
Open the main documenation file in a viewer.
MIKTEX_VIEW_dvi
DVI viewer.
MIKTEX_VIEW_pdf
PDF viewer.
MIKTEX_VIEW_ps
PostScript viewer.
MIKTEX_VIEW_html
HTML viewer.
MIKTEX_VIEW_txt
Text viewer.
The environment variables should be set with a “%f” as a placeholder for the name of the file. For example:
>
MIKTEX_VIEW_pdf="gv %f"