<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Sorry to take so long to reply, school stuff stole my attention for awhile. <div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 5, 2007, at 6:16 AM, Brad Miller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: 14px; ">Thanks for the patch. Can you tell me more about what you had in mind for this? I can't really see how your patch helps, given that PyTexdoc already manually searches all the TEXMF paths and finds way more documentation than your kpsewhich package does.<br><br></span></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>This isn't to find more documentation but to find files that have been \input into the current document. It's quite possible that there is a better way to do this but at least for me the program would complain when my header had a line like</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>\input{notation.tex}</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>where this file wasn't in the same directory but kept in my local texmf tree so I could include it in whatever program I wanted.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Inconsolata; font-size: 14px; ">As long as we are discussing this program, I've been thinking for some time now that I could speed up day to day use of this command drastically by pickling the dictionaries created when I manually crawl the latex hierarchy. Given that most people don't update their tex installation all that frequently I think this would be a real win. The question becomes when to go back and recrawl?<br>* After some number of days?<br>* Provide a command to rebuild the index manually?<br>* Look for some other marker in the tex heirarchy that indicates that LaTeX has been updated... Is there a file or a kpse sort of command that would give me an installation last updated date?<br><br>Other ideas or comments welcome...<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Brad</span></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Could you somehow bootstrap off the ls-R files?</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>Peter</div></body></html>