dviselect (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

dviselect – extract pages from DVI files

SYNOPSIS

dviselect [ -s ] [ -i infile ] [ -o outfile ] list of pages [ infile [ outfile ] ]

DESCRIPTION

Dviselect selects pages from a DVI file produced by TeX, creating a new DVI file usable by any of the TeX conversion programs, or even by dviselect itself.

A range is a string of the form even, odd, or first:last where both first and last are optional numeric strings, with negative numbers indicated by a leading underscore character “_”. If both first and last are omitted, the colon may also be omitted, or may be replaced with an asterisk “*”. A page range is a list of ranges separated by periods. A list of pages is described by a set of page ranges separated by commas and/or white space.

Dviselect actually looks at the ten count variables that TeX writes; the first of these (