Ubuntu Manpage: xditview - display ditroff output

NAME

       xditview - display ditroff output

SYNOPSIS

       xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename ]

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.

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

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.

ORIGIN

       Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was derived from suntroff.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1994 X Consortium
       See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS

       Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
       Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
       David Slattengren (Berkeley)
       Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
       Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)