On Tue, 1 Mar 2016, Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti wrote:
 Anyway, this doesn't seem to work on my MATE laptop. I've
tried evince, atril 
 and okular, to no avail. stderr gives no debugging messages except for
 pdf help: looking for gretl-guide-a4.pdf
 In all three case, the guide opens, but not at the indicated chapter. Sorry I 
 don't have time today to pursue this any further. 
Correction/integration: it works with okular, provided you've rebuild the 
pdf files from scratch. That is, between "configure + make" and "make 
install", you run "make pdfdocs".
That said, I suspect that a setting I have with both evince and atril by 
which those two programs remember the page they where at when a given file 
was last closed is maybe interfering with the desired outcome, but I 
wouldn't know how to turn it off/on (I actually like it).
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   Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
   Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Sociali (DiSES)
   Università Politecnica delle Marche
   (formerly known as Università di Ancona)
   r.lucchetti(a)univpm.it
   
http://www2.econ.univpm.it/servizi/hpp/lucchetti
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