xditview - display ditroff output
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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.
Name
xditview - display ditroff output
Options
Xditview accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options along with the additional options
listed below:
-pagepage-number
This option specifies the page number of the document to be displayed at start up time.
-resolutionscreen-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.-backingStorebacking-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:-bgcolor
This option specifies the color to use for the background of the window. The default is white.
-bdcolor
This option specifies the color to use for the border of the window. The default is black.
-bwnumber
This option specifies the width in pixels of the border surrounding the window.
-fgcolor
This option specifies the color to use for displaying text. The default is black.
-fnfont
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.
-geometrygeometry
This option specifies the preferred size and position of the window.
-displayhost:display
This option specifies the X server to contact.
-xrmresourcestring
This option specifies a resource string to be used.
Origin
Portions of this program originated in xtroffwhichwasderived from suntroff.See Also
X(7), xrdb(1), ditroff(1), XLogicalFontDescriptionConventions
Synopsis
xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename ]
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.
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(classFontMap)
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
