xditview - display ditroff output
xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ...
] [ filename ]
The xditview program displays ditroff output on an X
display. It uses no special metrics and automatically converts the printer
coordinates into screen coordinates; using the user-specified screen
resolution, rather than the actual resolution so that the appropriate fonts
can be found. If ``-'' is given as the filename,
xditview reads from standard input. If ``|'' is the first
character of filename, xditview forks sh to run the
rest of the ``file name'' and uses the standard output of that command.
Xditview accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line
options along with the additional options listed below:
- -page
page-number
- This option specifies the page number of the document to be displayed at
start up time.
- -resolution
screen-resolution
- This specifies the desired screen resolution to use; fonts will be opened
by requesting this resolution field in the XLFD names.
- -noPolyText
- Some X servers incorrectly implement PolyText with multiple strings per
request. This option suppresses the use of this feature in
xditview.
- -backingStore
backing-store-type
- Redisplay can take up to a second or so; this option causes the server to
save the window contents so that when it is scrolled around the viewport,
the window is painted from contents saved in backing store.
backing-store-type can be one of Always, WhenMapped
or NotUseful.
- -help
- This option indicates that xditview should print a usage message
and exit.
- -version
- This option indicates that xditview should print version info and
exit.
The following standard X Toolkit command line arguments are
commonly used with xditview:
- -bg color
- This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window.
The default is white.
- -bd color
- This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window. The
default is black.
- -bw number
- This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the
window.
- -fg color
- This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. The default is
black.
- -fn font
- This option specifies the font to be used for displaying widget text. The
default is fixed.
- -rv
- This option indicates that reverse video should be simulated by swapping
the foreground and background colors.
- -geometry
geometry
- This option specifies the preferred size and position of the window.
- -display
host:display
- This option specifies the X server to contact.
- -xrm
resourcestring
- This option specifies a resource string to be used.
This program uses a Dvi widget. It understands all of the
core resource names and classes as well as:
- width (class
Width)
- Specifies the width of the window.
- height (class
Height)
- Specifies the height of the window.
- foreground
(class Foreground)
- Specifies the default foreground color.
- font (class
Font)
- Specifies the font to be used for error messages.
- FontMap
(class FontMap)
- To associate the ditroff fonts with appropriate X fonts, this
string resource contains a set of new-line separated specifications, each
of which consists of a ditroff name, some white space and an XLFD pattern
with * characters in appropriate places to allow all sizes to be listed.
The default fontMap is:
R -*-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
I -*-times-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
B -*-times-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
F -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
BI -*-times-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
C -*-courier-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CO -*-courier-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CB -*-courier-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
CF -*-courier-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
H -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HO -*-helvetica-medium-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HB -*-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
HF -*-helvetica-bold-o-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
N -*-new century schoolbook-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NI -*-new century schoolbook-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NB -*-new century schoolbook-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
NF -*-new century schoolbook-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
A -*-charter-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AI -*-charter-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AB -*-charter-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AF -*-charter-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
S -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n\
S2 -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n
You can use any ditroff output file with xditview, although
files which use the fonts appropriate to the fontMap will look more accurate
on the screen. On servers which support scaled fonts, all requested font
sizes will be accurately reflected on the screen; for servers which do not
support scaled xditview will use the closest font from the same
family.
X(7), xrdb(1), ditroff(1), X Logical Font
Description Conventions
Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was
derived from suntroff.
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
David Slattengren (Berkeley)
Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)