DVI2TTYLocal7 June 1986NAME dvi2tty – preview a dvi–file on an ordinary ascii terminal SYNOPSIS dvi2tty [ options ] dvi–file DESCRIPTION dvi2tty converts a TeX DVI–file to a format that is apprporiate for terminals and lineprinters. The program is intended to be used for preliminary proofreading of TeX-ed documents. By default the output is directed to the terminal, possibly through a pager (depending on how the program was installed), but it can be directed to a file or a pipe.

The output leaves much to be desired, but is still usefull if you want to avoid walking to the laserprinter (or whatever) for each iteration of your document. Since dvi2tty produces output for terminals and lineprinters the representation of documents is naturally quite primitive. Fontchanges are totally ignored, which implies that special symbols, such as mathematical symbols, get mapped into the characters at the corresponding positions in the "standard" fonts.

If the width of the output text requires more columns than fits in one line (c.f. the –w option) it is broken into several lines by dvi2tty although they will be printed as one line on regular TeX output devices (e.g.laserprinters). To show that a broken line is really just one logical line an asterisk (``*'') in the last position means that the logical line is continued on the next physical line output by dvi2tty. Such a continuation line is started with a a space and an asterisk in the first two columns.

Options may be specified in the environment variable DVI2TTY. Any option on the commandline, conflicting with one in the environment, will override the one from the environment.

Options:


\begin{TPlist}{{\bf --o file}} \item[{{\bf --o file}}] Write output to file \lq\lq fi... ...ese special characters will be identical regardless of this option. \end{TPlist}
FILES /usr/ucb/more probably the default pager. ENVIRONMENT PAGER the pager to use. DVI2TTY can be set to hold commandline options. SEE ALSO TeX, dvi2ps AUTHOR Svante Lindahl, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Improved C version: Marcel Mol {seismo, mcvax}!enea!ttds!zap marcel@duteca.UUCP BUGS Blanks between words get lost quite easy. This is less likely if you are using a wider output than the default 80.

Only one file may be specified on the commandline.