.TH GRODVI 1 "7 February 2022" "groff 1.22.4"
.SH NAME
grodvi \- convert groff output to TeX DVI format
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.SY grodvi
.OP \-dl
.OP \-F dir
.OP \-p papersize
.OP \-w n
.RI [ file
\&.\|.\|.\&]
.YS
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.SY grodvi
.B \-\-help
.YS
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.SY grodvi
.B \-v
.SY grodvi
.B \-\-version
.YS
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B grodvi
is a driver for
.B groff
that produces \*(tx DVI format.
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Normally it should be run by
.BR groff\ \-Tdvi .
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This will run
.BR troff\ \-Tdvi ;
it will also input the macros in
.IR /usr/\:share/\:groff/\:1.22.4/\:tmac/\:dvi.tmac .
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.LP
The DVI file generated by
.B grodvi
can be printed by any correctly-written DVI driver.
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The troff drawing primitives are implemented
using the tpic version\~2 specials.
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If the driver does not support these, the
.B \[rs]D
commands will not produce any output.
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.LP
There is an additional drawing command available:
.
.TP
.BI \[rs]D'R\  dh\ dv '
Draw a rule (solid black rectangle), with one corner
at the current position, and the diagonally opposite corner
at the current position
.RI +( dh , dv ).
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Afterwards the current position will be at the opposite corner.
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This produces a rule in the DVI file and so can be printed even with a
driver that does not support the tpic specials unlike the other
.B \[rs]D
commands.
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.LP
The groff command
.BI \[rs]X' anything '
is translated into the same command in the DVI file as would be
produced by
.BI \[rs]special{ anything }
in \*(tx;
.I anything
may not contain a newline.
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.LP
For inclusion of EPS image files,
.B \-Tdvi
loads
.I pspic.tmac
automatically, providing the
.B PSPIC
macro.
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Please check
.BR groff_tmac (5)
for a detailed description.
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.LP
Font files for
.B grodvi
can be created from tfm files using
.BR tfmtodit (1).
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The font description file should contain the following
additional commands:
.
.TP
.BI internalname\   name
The name of the tfm file (without the
.I .tfm
extension) is
.IR name .
.
.TP
.BI checksum\  n
The checksum in the tfm file is
.IR n .
.
.TP
.BI designsize\  n
The designsize in the tfm file is
.IR n .
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.LP
These are automatically generated by
.B tfmtodit.
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.LP
The default color for
.B \[rs]m
and
.B \[rs]M
is black.
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Currently, the drawing color for
.B \[rs]D
commands is always black, and fill color values are translated to gray.
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.LP
In
.B troff
the
.B \[rs]N
escape sequence can be used to access characters by their position
in the corresponding tfm file;
all characters in the tfm file can be accessed this way.
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.LP
By design, the DVI format doesn't care about physical dimensions of the
output medium.
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Instead,
.B grodvi
emits the equivalent to \*[tx]'s
.BI \[rs]special{papersize= width , length }
on the first page;
.B dvips
(and possibly other DVI drivers) then sets the page size accordingly.
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If either the page width or length is not positive, no papersize special
is output.
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.SH OPTIONS
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Whitespace is permitted between a command-line option and its argument.
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.TP
.B \-d
Do not use tpic specials to implement drawing commands.
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Horizontal and vertical lines will be implemented by rules.
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Other drawing commands will be ignored.
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.TP
.BI \-F dir
Prepend directory
.RI dir /dev name
to the search path for font and device description files;
.I name
is the name of the device, usually
.BR dvi .
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.TP
.B \-l
Specify landscape orientation.
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.TP
.BI \-p papersize
Specify paper dimensions.
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This overrides the
.BR papersize ,
.BR paperlength ,
and
.B paperwidth
commands in the
.I DESC
file; it accepts the same arguments as the
.B papersize
command (see
.BR groff_font (5)
for details).
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.TP
.B \-v
Print the version number.
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.TP
.BI \-w n
Set the default line thickness to
.I n
thousandths of an em.
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If this option isn't specified, the line thickness defaults to
0.04\~em.
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.SH USAGE
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There are styles called
.BR R ,
.BR I ,
.BR B ,
and
.B BI
mounted at font positions 1 to\ 4.
The fonts are grouped into families
.B T
and
.B H
having members in each of these styles:
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.RS
.TP
.B TR
.FT TR
CM Roman (cmr10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B TI
.FT TI
CM Text Italic (cmti10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B TB
.FT TB
CM Bold Extended Roman (cmbx10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B TBI
.FT TBI
CM Bold Extended Text Italic (cmbxti10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B HR
.FT HR
CM Sans Serif (cmss10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B HI
.FT HI
CM Slanted Sans Serif (cmssi10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B HB
.FT HB
CM Sans Serif Bold Extended (cmssbx10)
.FT
.
.TQ
.B HBI
.FT HBI
CM Slanted Sans Serif Bold Extended (cmssbxo10)
.FT
.RE
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.LP
There are also the following fonts which are not members of a family:
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.RS
.TP
.B CW
CM Typewriter Text (cmtt10)
.FT CW
.FT
.
.TQ
.B CWI
CM Italic Typewriter Text (cmitt10)
.FT CWI
.FT
.RE
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.LP
Special fonts are
.B MI
(cmmi10),
.B S
(cmsy10),
.B EX
(cmex10),
.B SC
(cmtex10, only for
.BR CW ),
and, perhaps surprisingly,
.BR TR ,
.BR TI ,
and
.BR CW ,
due to the different font encodings of text fonts.
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For italic fonts,
.B CWI
is used instead of
.BR CW .
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.LP
Finally, the symbol fonts of the American Mathematical Society are available
as special fonts
.B SA
(msam10) and
.B SB
(msbm10).
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These two fonts are not mounted by default.
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.LP
Using the option
.B \-mec
(which loads the file
.IR ec.tmac )
provides the EC and TC fonts.
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The design of the EC family is very similar to that of the CM fonts;
additionally, they give a much better coverage of groff symbols.
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Note that
.I ec.tmac
must be called before any language-specific files; it doesn't take
care of hcode values.
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.SH ENVIRONMENT
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.TP
.I GROFF_FONT_PATH
A list of directories in which to search for the
.IR dev name
directory in addition to the default ones.
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See
.BR troff (1)
and
.BR \%groff_font (5)
for more details.
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.SH FILES
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.TP
.I /usr/\:share/\:groff/\:1.22.4/\:font/devdvi/DESC
Device description file.
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.TP
.IR /usr/\:share/\:groff/\:1.22.4/\:font/devdvi/ F
Font description file for font
.IR F .
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.TP
.I /usr/\:share/\:groff/\:1.22.4/\:tmac/dvi.tmac
Macros for use with
.BR grodvi .
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.TP
.I /usr/\:share/\:groff/\:1.22.4/\:tmac/ec.tmac
Macros to switch to EC fonts.
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.SH BUGS
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Dvi files produced by
.B grodvi
use a different resolution (57816 units per inch) from those produced by
\*(tx.
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Incorrectly written drivers which assume the resolution used by \*(tx,
rather than using the resolution specified in the DVI file will not
work with
.BR grodvi .
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.LP
When using the
.B \-d
option with boxed tables,
vertical and horizontal lines can sometimes protrude by one pixel.
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This is a consequence of the way \*(tx requires that the heights
and widths of rules be rounded.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.
.BR tfmtodit (1),
.BR groff (1),
.BR troff (1),
.BR groff_out (5),
.BR groff_font (5),
.BR groff_char (7),
.BR groff_tmac (5)
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