Axohelp is a program used with the axodraw2, which is a LaTeX package for drawing Feynman graphs (and
some other simple graphics) in LaTeX documents.
When the axodraw2 package is used with pdflatex (or lualatex or xelatex) it creates a file with extension
.ax1. This contains specifications of the graphics elements. Axohelp converts this to a file with
extension ax2 that contains the necessary pdf code. The .ax2 file is read by pdflatex (etc) on its next
run, and the contents of the .ax2 file are used in the final .pdf output file to draw the desired
graphics.
The files processed are specified as follows: When the filename on the command line is of the form
file.ax1, then the input file is file.ax1 and the output file is file.ax2. If the filename on the
command line does not have extension .ax1, then this extension is appended.