The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
mgd77convert – Convert MGD77 data to other file formats Synopsismgd77convert NGDC-ids a|c|m |t [+]a|c|m|t [ ] [ ] [ [w][e][+] ] [ [level] ] Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments. Descriptionmgd77convert reads versions of MGD77 files and writes the same data in (probably) another format to a new…
mg – emacs-like text editor Synopsismg [-n ] [-f mode ] [+ number ] [file … ] Descriptionmg is intended to be a small, fast, and portable editor for people who can’t (or don’t want to) run emacs for one reason or another, or are not familiar with the vi(1) editor. It is compatible with…
mftraining – feature training for Tesseract Synopsismftraining -U unicharset -O lang.unicharset FILE… Descriptionmftraining takes a list of .tr files, from which it generates the files inttemp (the shape prototypes), shapetable, and pffmtable (the number of expected features for each character). (A fourth file called Microfeat is also written by this program, but it is not…
mftrace – convert METAFONT format fonts into Type1 outline fonts Synopsismftrace [options] fontname Descriptionmftrace is a program that can convert a METAFONT font into a Type1 font. It is simply called with the name of the font (without a `.mf’ suffix) and produces a Type1 font file called either fontname.pfa or fontname.pfb depending on the…
mftext – Dump a MIDI file as text Synopsismftext file Descriptionmftext gives a verbose description of what is in a MIDI file. You may wish to use it to check the output from abc2midi. It is part of the original midifilelib distribution available from http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/midifilelib.tar.gz. See Alsoabcmtex(1), abc2abc(1), abc2midi(1), midi2abc(1) AuthorThis manual page was written…
mft – translate Metafont or MetaPost code to TeX code for prettyprinting Synopsismft [OPTIONS] mf_file_name[.mf|.mp] DescriptionThis manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. The mft program creates a TeX file from a Metafont…
mformat – add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted floppy disk Note of warningThis manpage has been automatically generated from mtools’s texinfo documentation, and may not be entirely accurate or complete. See the end of this man page for details. DescriptionThe mformat command is used to add an MS-DOS file system to a low-level…
mflua, mflua-nowin, mfluajit, mfluajit-nowin – implementation of META-FONT with Lua embedded for better extraction of information from METAFONT. Synopsismflua [,OPTION/]… [,MFNAME/[,.mf/]] [,COMMANDS/] mflua [,OPTION/]… ,FIRST-LINE/ mflua [,OPTION/]… ,&BASE ARGS/ DescriptionRun MFLua on MFNAME, usually creating MFNAME.tfm and MFNAME.NNNNgf, where NNNN is the resolution of the specified mode (2602 by default). Any following COMMANDS are processed…
mf, inimf, mf-nowin – Metafont, a language for font and logo design Synopsismf [options] [commands] DescriptionMetafont reads the program in the specified files and outputs font rasters (in gf format) and font metrics (in tfm format). The Metafont language is described in The Metafontbook. Like TeX, Metafont is normally used with a large body of…
mf, inimf, mf-nowin – Metafont, a language for font and logo design Synopsismf [options] [commands] DescriptionMetafont reads the program in the specified files and outputs font rasters (in gf format) and font metrics (in tfm format). The Metafont language is described in The Metafontbook. Like TeX, Metafont is normally used with a large body of…
pdftex – PDF output from TeX Synopsispdftex [options] [&format] [file|\commands] DescriptionRun the pdfTeX typesetter on file, usually creating file.pdf. If the file argument has no extension, ".tex" will be appended to it. Instead of a filename, a set of pdfTeX commands can be given, the first of which must start with a backslash. With a…
mewl – Message scanner for Mew 4 or later Synopsismewl [options] [folder [range]] DescriptionThe mewl utility extracts necessary fields from messages stored in folders. This command is necessary for Mew to implement the asynchronous feature. The options are as follows: -a Print all necessary fields when picking. -b dir Set the Mail home to dir….
mewencode, mewdecode, mewcat – MIME encoder/decoder Synopsismewencode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewdecode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewcat [-options] [infile] DescriptionThe mewencode utility encode/decode MIME objects. The options are as follows: -e Encoding. -d Decoding. -8 See if any 8bit characters are contained. -b MIME base64 en/decoding. -q MIME quoted-printable en/decoding. -g MIME gzip64 en/decoding(not yet specified in…
mewencode, mewdecode, mewcat – MIME encoder/decoder Synopsismewencode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewdecode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewcat [-options] [infile] DescriptionThe mewencode utility encode/decode MIME objects. The options are as follows: -e Encoding. -d Decoding. -8 See if any 8bit characters are contained. -b MIME base64 en/decoding. -q MIME quoted-printable en/decoding. -g MIME gzip64 en/decoding(not yet specified in…
mewencode, mewdecode, mewcat – MIME encoder/decoder Synopsismewencode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewdecode [-options] [infile [outfile]] mewcat [-options] [infile] DescriptionThe mewencode utility encode/decode MIME objects. The options are as follows: -e Encoding. -d Decoding. -8 See if any 8bit characters are contained. -b MIME base64 en/decoding. -q MIME quoted-printable en/decoding. -g MIME gzip64 en/decoding(not yet specified in…
mev – a program to report mouse events Synopsismev [ options ] DescriptionThe `mev’ program is part of the gpm package. The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information. The mev program is modeled after xev. It prints to stdout the mouse console events it gets. mev’s…
metapixel – generator for photomosaics Synopsis metapixel-prepare [options] [srcdir] [destdir] prepares the pictures in srcdir by creating resized images and a table file in destdir metapixel [options] [–metapixel input.jpg output.png –library destdir] creates a photomosaic output.png using input.jpg as the input image and destdir/tables.mxt as table file DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the metapixel and metapixel-prepare commands. For more…
metalink — commandline metalink generator Synopsismetalink [input files] [ < mirror list] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly the metalink command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. metalink allows you to generate metalinks from a list of mirrors and a collection of files….
metaflac – program to list, add, remove, or edit metadata in one or more FLAC files. Synopsismetaflac [ options ] [ operations ] FLACfile … DescriptionUse metaflac to list, add, remove, or edit metadata in one or more FLAC files. You may perform one major operation, or many shorthand operations at a time. Options–preserve-modtime Preserve…
METACITY – minimal GTK2 Window Manager Synopsismetacity [–display=DISPLAY] [–replace] [–sm-client-id=ID] [–sm-disable] [–sm-save-file=FILENAME] [–sync] [–composite] [–no-composite] [–no-force-fullscreen] [–version] [–help] DescriptionThis manual page documents briefly metacity. metacity is a minimal X window manager aimed at nontechnical users and is designed to integrate well with the GNOME desktop. metacity lacks some features that may be expected by traditional…