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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2021-03-04 19:00:28 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2021-03-04 19:00:28 +0000 |
commit | 62c71c219fee02dbdf435088deeff0f2fc55178e (patch) | |
tree | 3ace4b05df90777938c50288fa321b747038edf0 /Build/source/texk/dvi2tty | |
parent | 9becaffdc29cac14ead6bd451100e7d1bf627a1f (diff) |
fixes from debian, tldistro 3 Mar 2021 07:59:41
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@58117 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rw-r--r-- | Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1 | 115 |
2 files changed, 61 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/ChangeLog b/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/ChangeLog index 721e5882ce6..da3b307d74e 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/ChangeLog +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2021-03-04 Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> + + * dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1: Fixes from Bjarni Ingi Gislason (and + further tweaks by me), bugs.debian.org/958728. + 2020-12-13 TANAKA Takuji <ttk@t-lab.opal.ne.jp> * dvistuff.c: Avoid compiler warnings. diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1 b/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1 index 0c3a7da6177..f6c8b1f8f26 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1 +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvi2tty/dvi2tty-src/dvi2tty.1 @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -.TH DVI2TTY 1 "13 November 1990" +.TH DVI2TTY 1 "4 March 2021" .SH NAME -dvi2tty \- preview a TeX DVI\-file on an ordinary ascii terminal +dvi2tty \- preview a TeX DVI file on an ordinary ASCII terminal .SH SYNOPSIS .B dvi2tty -[ options ] dvi\-file +[ options ] dvifile .SH DESCRIPTION .I dvi2tty -converts a TeX DVI\-file to a format that is appropriate for terminals +converts a TeX DVI file to a format that is appropriate for terminals and line printers. The program is intended to be used for preliminary proofreading of TeX-ed documents. By default the output is directed to the terminal, @@ -22,22 +22,22 @@ Since .I dvi2tty produces output for terminals and line printers the representation of documents is naturally quite primitive. -In principle Font Changes are totally ignored, but +In principle font changes are totally ignored, but .I dvi2tty recognizes -a few mathematical and special symbols that can be be displayed on an -ordinary ascii terminal, such as the '+' and '-' symbol. +a few mathematical and special symbols that can be displayed on an +ordinary ASCII terminal, such as the '+' and '-' symbol. .PP If the width of the output text requires more columns than fits -in one line (c.f. the \-w option) it is broken into several lines by +in one line (cf.\& the -w option) it is broken into several lines by .I dvi2tty although they will be printed as one line on regular TeX output -devices (e.g. laser printers). To show that a broken line is really +devices (e.g., laser printers). To show that a broken line is really just one logical line an asterisk (``*'') in the last position means that the logical line is continued on the next physical line output by .I dvi2tty. -Such a continuation line is started with a a space and an asterisk +Such a continuation line is started with a space and an asterisk in the first two columns. .PP Options may be specified in the environment variable DVI2TTY. @@ -47,126 +47,123 @@ environment, will override the one from the environment. .B Options: .PP .TP -.B \-o file +.B -o file Write output to file ``file''. .TP -.B \-p list +.B -p list Print the pages chosen by list. -Numbers refer to TeX\-page numbers (known as \\count0). +Numbers refer to TeX page numbers (known as \ecount0). An example of format for list is ``1,3:6,8'' to choose pages 1, 3 through 6 and 8. Negative numbers can be used exactly as in TeX, -e g \-1 comes before \-4 as in ``\-p\-1:\-4,17''. +e.g., \-1 comes before \-4 as in ``-p-1:-4,17''. .TP -.B \-P list -Like \-p except that page numbers refer to -the sequential ordering of the pages in the dvi\-file. +.B -P list +Like -p except that page numbers refer to +the sequential ordering of the pages in the dvi-file. Negative numbers don't make a lot of sense here... .TP -.B \-w n +.B -w n Specify terminal width .I n. -Legal range 16\-132. +Valid range 16\(en132. Default is 80. If your terminal has the ability to display in 132 columns it might -be a good idea to use \-w132 and toggle the +be a good idea to use -w132 and toggle the terminal into this mode as output will probably look somewhat better. .TP -.B \-v -Specify height of lines. Default value 450000. Allows to adjust linespacing. +.B -v +Specify height of lines. Default value 450000. Allows one to adjust linespacing. .TP -.B \-q +.B -q Don't pipe the output through a pager. This may be the default on some systems (depending on the whims of the person installing the program). .TP -.B \-e n +.B -e n This option can be used to influence the spacing between words. -With a negative value the number of spaces +With a negative value the number of spaces between words becomes less, with a positive value it becomes more. -\-e\-11 seems to worked well. +-e-11 seems to worked well. .TP -.B \-f +.B -f Pipe through a pager, $PAGER if defined, or whatever the installer of the program compiled in (often ``more''). This may be the default, but it is still okay to redirect output with ``>'', the pager will not be used if output is not going to a terminal. .TP -.B \-F +.B -F Specify the pager program to be used. -This overrides the $PAGER and the default pager. +This overrides the $PAGER environment variable and the default pager. .TP -.B \-Fprog +.B -Fprog Use ``prog'' as program to pipe output into. Can be used to choose an -alternate pager (e g ``-Fless''). +alternate pager (e.g., ``-Fless''). .TP -.B \-t -\\tt fonts were used (instead of cm) to produce dvi file. (screen.sty -is a powerfull mean to do that with LaTeX). +.B -t +\\tt fonts were used (instead of cm) to produce the dvi file. .TP -.B \-a +.B -a Dvi2tty normally tries to output accented characters. With the -a option, accented characters are output without the accent sign. .TP -.B \-l +.B -l Mark page breaks with the two-character sequence ``^L''. The default is to mark them with a form-feed character. .TP -.B \-c -Do not attempt to translate any characters (like the Scandinavion/latin1 mode) +.B -c +Do not attempt to translate any characters (like the Scandinavian/latin1 mode) except when running in tt-font. .TP -.B \-u +.B -u Toggle option to process certain latin1 characters. Use this if your output -devices supports latin1 cahracters. +devices supports latin1 characters. Note this may interfere with -s. Best not to use -u and -s together. .TP -.B \-s +.B -s Toggle option to process the special Scandinavian characters that on most (?) -terminals in Scandinavia are mapped to ``{|}[\\]''. +terminals in Scandinavia are mapped to ``{|}[\e]''. Note this may interfere with -u. Best not to use -u and -s together. .TP -.B \-J +.B -J Auto detect NTT JTeX, ASCII pTeX, and upTeX dvi format. .TP -.B \-N +.B -N Display NTT JTeX dvi. .TP -.B \-A +.B -A Display ASCII pTeX dvi. .TP -.B \-U +.B -U Display upTeX dvi. .TP -.B \-Eenc +.B -Eenc Set output Japanese encoding. The enc argument 'e', 's', 'j', and 'u' denotes EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and UTF-8, respectively. .TP -.B \-bdelim +.B -bdelim Print the name of fonts when switching to it (and ending it). The delim argument is used to delimit the fontname. .SH FILES -/bin/more \ \ \ \ -probably the default pager. +.nr L1 \w'/bin/more \ \ \ \ ' +/bin/more\h'|\n(L1u'probably the default pager. .SH ENVIRONMENT -PAGER \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ -the pager to use. +.\".nr L1 \w'DVI2TTY ' +PAGER\h'|\n(L1u'the pager to use. .br -DVI2TTY \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ -can be set to hold command-line options. +DVI2TTY\h'|\n(L1u'can be set to hold command-line options. .SH "SEE ALSO" TeX, dvi2ps .SH AUTHOR -Original Pascal verion: Svante Lindahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm +Original Pascal version: Svante Lindahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm .br -Improved C version: Marcel Mol +Improved C version: Marcel Mol, MESA Consulting .br -marcel@mesa.nl, MESA Consulting +Now maintained at https://github.com/t-tk/dvi2tty/releases. .SH BUGS -Blanks between words get lost quite easy. This is less +Blanks between words get lost quite easily. This is less likely if you are using a wider output than the default 80. .PP Only one file may be specified on the command line. - |