Ubuntu Manpage: vprerex - graphical front-end and viewer for the prerex(1) prerequisite-chart editor

NAME

       vprerex - graphical front-end and viewer for the prerex(1) prerequisite-chart editor

SYNOPSIS

       vprerex basefile[.tex] [ chartfile[.tex] ]

       vprerex file.pdf

       vprerex

DESCRIPTION

       vprerex (visual prerex) is a GUI front-end and viewer for the prerex(1) interactive editor
       of prerequisite-chart descriptions in the prerex(5) format.  The viewer may be  used  just
       as  a minimalistic viewer of arbitrary PDF files  but supports editing of charts generated
       using prerex.sty(7) by allowing coordinates of course boxes, arrows, and background points
       to be conveyed back to the prerex(1) command-line using the clipboard.

USAGE

If vprerex is invoked on a PDF file, it simply displays that file.

If the (first) argument does not have the .pdf suffix, it is assumed to be the base file
for a LaTeX document containing a prerequisite-chart description in prerex(5) format, to
be edited using prerex(1). If a second argument is supplied, it is regarded as an
included file containing the specific chart environment to be edited.

If no arguments are supplied, a file-opening dialog allows the user the specify the
prerex(1) base file to be edited (or the PDF file to be viewed); if a separate chartfile
is needed, vprerex(1) must be invoked wth two arguments on the command line.

If the mouse hovers over a hyperlink in the PDF viewing window, the cursor shape will
change to a pointing finger and a tooltip will display the URI. If the PDF file displayed
contains a chart generated using prerex.sty(7) and the background coordinate grid has been
enabled, left-clicking the mouse on a course box, arrow mid-point, or background point
will load the relevant coordinates into the X clipboard. The cursor shape changes to a
plus-sign to indicate successful capture of the coordinates. Middle-clicking the mouse at
the prerex(1) command-line will then paste those coordinates into a command being
composed. If the chart file is regenerated, the updated document will be re-loaded.

DEPENDENCIES

       vprerex  is  based  on  the  Qt-4 library. It calls xterm(1) and prerex(1) for the editing
       window and uses poppler-qt4 for rendering PDF files.

AUTHOR

       R. D. Tennent (rdt@cs.queensu.ca), adapted from David Boddie's PDFviewer, described in the
       QT Quarterly: http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/QtQuarterly27.pdf.