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-.TH DVI2TTY Local "7 June 1986"
+.TH DVI2TTY 1 "13 November 1990"
.SH NAME
-dvi2tty \- preview a 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
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I dvi2tty
-converts a TeX DVI\-file to a format that is apprporiate for terminals
-and lineprinters. The program is intended to be used for
+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,
possibly through a pager (depending on how the program was installed),
but it can be directed to a file or a pipe.
.PP
The output leaves much to be desired, but is still
-usefull if you want to avoid walking to the
-laserprinter (or whatever) for each iteration of your
+useful if you want to avoid walking to the
+laser printer (or whatever) for each iteration of your
document.
.br
Since
.I dvi2tty
-produces output for terminals and lineprinters the
+produces output for terminals and line printers the
representation of documents is naturally quite primitive.
-Fontchanges are totally ignored, which implies that
-special symbols, such as mathematical symbols, get mapped into the
-characters at the corresponding positions in the "standard" fonts.
+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.
.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
.I dvi2tty
although they will be printed as one line on regular TeX output
-devices (e.g. laserprinters). 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
@@ -39,7 +41,7 @@ Such a continuation line is started with a a space and an asterisk
in the first two columns.
.PP
Options may be specified in the environment variable DVI2TTY.
-Any option on the commandline, conflicting with one in the
+Any option on the command line, conflicting with one in the
environment, will override the one from the environment.
.PP
.B Options:
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ Numbers refer to TeX\-page numbers (known as \\count0).
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
@@ -71,61 +73,93 @@ 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.
+.TP
.B \-q
Don't pipe the output through a pager.
This may be the default on some systems
-(depending on the whims of the SA installing the program).
+(depending on the whims of the person installing the program).
+.TP
+.B \-e n
+This option can be used to influence the spacing between words.
+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.
.TP
.B \-f
-Pipe through a pager, $PAGER if defined, or whatever your SA compiled
+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
Specify the pager program to be used.
-This overides the $PAGER and the default pager.
+This overrides the $PAGER and the default pager.
.TP
.B \-Fprog
Use ``prog'' as program to pipe output into. Can be used to choose an
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).
+.TP
+.B \-a
+Dvi2tty normally tries to output accented characters. With the -a option,
+accented characters are output without the accent sign.
+.TP
.B \-l
-Mark pagebreaks with the two-character sequence ``^L''. The default is
-to mark them with a formfeed character.
+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)
+except when running in tt-font.
.TP
.B \-u
-Don't make any attempts to find special Scandinavian characters.
-If such characters are in the text they will map to ``a'' and ``o''.
-This is probably the default outside of Scandinavia. (The SA made
-the decision when the program was installed.)
+Toggle option to process certain latin1 characters. Use this if your output
+devices supports latin1 cahracters.
+Note this may interfere with -s. Best not to use -u and -s together.
.TP
.B \-s
-Try to find the special Scandinavian characters that on most (?)
+Toggle option to process the special Scandinavian characters that on most (?)
terminals in Scandinavia are mapped to ``{|}[\\]''.
-This can be the default, and output from files not containing these
-special characters will be identical regardless of this option.
+Note this may interfere with -u. Best not to use -u and -s together.
+.TP
+.B \-J
+Auto detect NTT JTeX and ASCII pTeX dvi format.
+.TP
+.B \-N
+Display NTT JTeX dvi.
+.TP
+.B \-A
+Display ASCII pTeX dvi.
+.TP
+.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
-/usr/ucb/more \ \ \ \
+/bin/more \ \ \ \
probably the default pager.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
PAGER \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
the pager to use.
.br
DVI2TTY \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \
-can be set to hold commandline options.
+can be set to hold command-line options.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
TeX, dvi2ps
.SH AUTHOR
-Svante Lindahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
+Original Pascal verion: Svante Lindahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
.br
Improved C version: Marcel Mol
.br
-{seismo, mcvax}!enea!ttds!zap
-.br
-marcel@duteca.UUCP
+marcel@mesa.nl, MESA Consulting
.SH BUGS
Blanks between words get lost quite easy. This is less
likely if you are using a wider output than the default 80.
.PP
-Only one file may be specified on the commandline.
+Only one file may be specified on the command line.
+