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diff --git a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/dvips.1 b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/dvips.1 index 09170168cd8..05e5bcb5d2b 100644 --- a/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/dvips.1 +++ b/Master/texmf/doc/man/man1/dvips.1 @@ -1,11 +1,9 @@ -.TH DVIPS 1 "27 May 2004" +.TH DVIPS 1 "4 May 2010" .SH NAME dvips \- convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript .SH SYNOPSIS .B dvips -[ -.I options -] +.RI [ OPTIONS ] .IR file [\fB.dvi\fP] .SH DESCRIPTION THIS MAN PAGE IS OBSOLETE! @@ -13,7 +11,7 @@ See the Texinfo documentation instead. You can read it either in Emacs or with the standalone .B info program which comes with the GNU texinfo distribution as -prep.ai.mit.edu:pub/gnu/texinfo*.tar.gz. +ftp.gnu.org:pub/gnu/texinfo/texinfo*.tar.gz. .PP The program .B dvips @@ -78,14 +76,8 @@ Set the debug flags. This is intended only for emergencies or for unusual fact-finding expeditions; it will work only if .B dvips has been compiled with the DEBUG option. If nonzero, prints additional -information on standard error. The number is taken as a set of -independent bits. The meaning of each bit follows. 1=specials; -2=paths; 4=fonts; 8=pages; 16=headers; 32=font compression; 64=files; -128=memory; 256=Kpathsea stat(2) calls; 512=Kpathsea hash table lookups; -1024=Kpathsea path element expansion; 2048=Kpathsea searches. To trace -everything having to do with file searching and opening, use 3650 (2048 -+ 1024 + 512 + 64 + 2). To track all classes, you can use `-1' (output -is extremely voluminous). +information on standard error. For maximum information, you can use +`-1'. See the Dvips Texinfo manual for more details. .TP .B -D num Set the resolution in dpi (dots per inch) to @@ -251,18 +243,33 @@ that try to interpret PostScript comments in weird ways, or on some PostScript printers. Old versions of TranScript in particular cannot handle modern Encapsulated PostScript. .TP -.B -noomega -This will disable the use of Omega extensions when interpreting DVI files. -By default, the additional opcodes +.BR -noomega +This will disable the use of Omega and pTeX extensions when interpreting DVI +files. By default, the additional opcodes .I 129 and .I 134 are recognized by dvips as Omega extensions and interpreted as requests to -set 2-byte characters. The only drawback is that the virtual font array will -(at least temporarily) require 65536 positions instead of the default 256 -positions, i.e. the memory requirements of dvips will be slightly larger. If -you find this unacceptable or encounter another problem with the Omega -extensions, you can switch this extension off by using +set 2-byte characters. +.TP +.BR -noptex +This will disable the use of pTeX extensions when interpreting DVI files. +By default, the additional opcodes +.I 130 +and +.I 135 +are recognized by dvips as pTeX extensions and interpreted as requests to +set 3-byte characters, and +.I 255 +as request to change the typesetting direction. +.sp +The only drawback is that the virtual font array will (at least temporarily) +require 65536 or more positions instead of the default 256 positions, i.e., +the memory requirements of dvips will be somewhat larger. If you find this +unacceptable or encounter another problem with the Omega or pTeX extensions, +you can switch off the pTeX extension by using +.BR -noptex , +or both by using .B -noomega (but please do send a bug report if you find such problems - see the bug address in the @@ -506,7 +513,8 @@ fonts are used. Will slow down printing somewhat, especially on early 68000-based PostScript printers. .SH "SEE ALSO" mf(1), afm2tfm(1), tex(1), latex(1), lpr(1), -.IR dvips.texi . +.IR dvips.texi , +http://tug.org/dvips. .SH ENVIRONMENT Dvipsk uses the same environment variables and algorithms for finding font files as TeX and its friends do. See the documentation for the @@ -520,4 +528,4 @@ PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. .SH AUTHOR Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@cs.stanford.edu>; extended to virtual fonts by Don Knuth. Path searching and configuration modifications by -kb@mail.tug.org. +Karl Berry. |