xditview
display ditroff output
see also :
X - xrdb
Synopsis
xditview
[ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option
... ] [ filename ]
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source
DITVIEW =
xditview -geom 640x950 -
description
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.
options
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.
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.
copyright
Copyright 1994 X Consortium
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
origin
Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was
derived from suntroff.
using xditview with ditroff
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 defaults
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
see also
X ,
xrdb , ditroff, X Logical Font
Description Conventions
authors
Keith Packard
(MIT X Consortium)
Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
David Slattengren (Berkeley)
Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)