dvi2tty (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

dvi2tty – preview a TeX DVI file on an ordinary ASCII terminal

SYNOPSIS

dvi2tty [ options ] dvifile

DESCRIPTION

dvi2tty converts a TeX DVI file to a format that is appropriate for terminals and line printers. The program is intended to be used for preliminary proofreading of TeX-ed documents. By default the output is directed to the terminal, possibly through a pager (depending on how the program was installed), but it can be directed to a file or a pipe.

The output leaves much to be desired, but is still useful if you want to avoid walking to the laser printer (or whatever) for each iteration of your document.
Since dvi2tty produces output for terminals and line printers the representation of documents is naturally quite primitive. In principle font changes are totally ignored, but dvi2tty recognizes a few mathematical and special symbols that can be displayed on an ordinary ASCII terminal, such as the ‘+’ and ‘-‘ symbol.

If the width of the output text requires more columns than fits in one line (cf. the -w option) it is broken into several lines by dvi2tty although they will be printed as one line on regular TeX output devices (e.g., laser printers). To show that a broken line is really just one logical line an asterisk (“*”) in the last position means that the logical line is continued on the next physical line output by dvi2tty. Such a continuation line is started with a space and an asterisk in the first two columns.

Options may be specified in the environment variable DVI2TTY. Any option on the command line, conflicting with one in the environment, will override the one from the environment.

Options:

-o file

Write output to file “file”.

-p list

Print the pages chosen by list. Numbers refer to TeX page numbers (known as