XDITVIEW(1) X Version 11 (Release 5) XDITVIEW(1)
NAME
xditview - display ditroff output
SYNOPSIS
xditview [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ -option ... ] [ filename ]
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.
OPTIONS
Xditview accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line
options along with the additional options listed below:
-page page-number
This option specifies the page number of the
document to be displayed at start up time.
-resolution screen-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 suppesses
the use of this feature in xditview.
-backingStore backing-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:
-bg color
This option specifies the color to use for the
background of the window. The default is white.
-bd color
This option specifies the color to use for the
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border of the window. The default is black.
-bw number
This option specifies the width in pixels of the
border surrounding the window.
-fg color
This option specifies the color to use for
displaying text. The default is black.
-fn font
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.
-geometry geometry
This option specifies the preferred size and
position of the window.
-display host:display
This option specifies the X server to contact.
-xrm resourcestring
This option specifies a resource string to be used.
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 (class FontMap)
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:
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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 -*-palatino-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AI -*-palatino-medium-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AB -*-palatino-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
AF -*-palatino-bold-i-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1\n\
S -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n\
S2 -*-symbol-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-adobe-fontspecific\n
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.
SEE ALSO
X(1), xrdb(1), ditroff(1), X Logical Font Description
Conventions
ORIGIN
Portions of this program originated in xtroff which was
derived from suntroff.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1989, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHORS
Keith Packard (MIT X Consortium)
Richard L. Hyde (Purdue)
David Slattengren (Berkeley)
Malcom Slaney (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)
Mark Moraes (University of Toronto)
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