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Manpages GRODVISection: User Commands (1)Updated: 27 June 2001 Index Return to Main Contents NAMEgrodvi - convert groff output to TeX dvi formatSYNOPSISgrodvi [ -dv ] [ -wn ] [ -Fdir ] [ files... ]It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its parameter. DESCRIPTIONgrodvi is a driver for groff that produces TeX dvi format. Normally it should be run by groff -Tdvi. This will run troff -Tdvi; it will also input the macros /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/tmac/dvi.tmac; if the input is being preprocessed with eqn it will also input /usr/share/groff/1.17.2/font/devdvi/eqnchar.The dvi file generated by grodvi can be printed by any correctly-written dvi driver. The troff drawing primitives are implemented using the tpic version 2 specials. If the driver does not support these, the \D commands will not produce any output. There is an additional drawing command available:
The groff command \X'anything' is translated into the same command in the dvi file as would be produced by \special{anything} in TeX; anything may not contain a newline. Font files for grodvi can be created from tfm files using tfmtodit(1). The font description file should contain the following additional commands: u+2n
These are automatically generated by tfmtodit. In troff the \N escape sequence can be used to access characters by their position in the corresponding tfm file; all characters in the tfm file can be accessed this way. OPTIONS
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BUGSDvi files produced by grodvi use a different resolution (57816 units per inch) to those produced by TeX. Incorrectly written drivers which assume the resolution used by TeX, rather than using the resolution specified in the dvi file will not work with grodvi.When using the -d option with boxed tables, vertical and horizontal lines can sometimes protrude by one pixel. This is a consequence of the way TeX requires that the heights and widths of rules be rounded. SEE ALSOtfmtodit(1), groff(1), troff(1), groff_out(5), groff_font(5), groff_char(7)
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