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disdvi - `disassemble' a (p)TeX or XeTeX DVI file

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  SEE ALSO  AUTHOR 

NAME

disdvi − ‘disassemble’ a (p)TeX or XeTeX DVI file

SYNOPSIS

disdvi [−p][−u][−Eenc] [dvi_file[.dvi]]
disdvi −x
[xdv_file[.xdv]]
disdvi −h

DESCRIPTION

disdvi interprets the contents of dvi_file or xdv_file printing the DVI commands and text in a human-readable ASCII/multibyte format on the standard output.

Options:

-p

Handle ASCII pTeX dvi file.

-u

Handle upTeX dvi file.

-Eenc

Set output multibyte encoding. The enc argument ’e’, ’s’, ’j’, and ’u’ denotes EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and UTF-8, respectively.

-x

Handle XeTeX xdv file.

-h

Show a help massage and exit successfully.

SEE ALSO

dvi2tty(1)

AUTHOR

Marcel J.E. Mol, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
[email protected], MESA Consulting


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