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MTHELP(1) User Commands MTHELP(1) NAME mthelp - MiKTeX help utility SYNOPSIS mthelp [option...] {name...} DESCRIPTION mthelp is a utility to look up MiKTeX related documentation. mthelp creates an HTML page which contains a short description of the pack- age 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. OPTIONS --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. ENVIRONMENT MIKTEX_TRACE Comma-separated list of trace stream names (see Chapter 9, Trace Streams). If this variable is set, then MiKTeX programs will write trace messages into the configured log sink. 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" FILES The intermediate HTML file (package.html) is stored in the directory mik- tex/mthelp relative to the data TEXMF data root (usually ~/.mik- tex/texmfs/data). SEE ALSO MiKTeX Project Page[1] ENVIRONMENT MIKTEX_TRACE Comma-separated list of trace stream names (see Chapter 9, Trace Streams). If this variable is set, then MiKTeX programs will write trace messages into the configured log sink. NOTES 1. MiKTeX Project Page https://miktex.org/ MiKTeX 25.4 April 18, 2025 MTHELP(1)
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