EUKLEIDES(1)

💖 EUKLEIDES(1) 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

eukleides — the Eukleides interpreter that turns your scripts into PostScript 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

eukleides [OPTION...] FILE

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Eukleides is a computer language devoted to elementary plane geometry. No cap. It's out here trying to be a pretty comprehensive system for making geometric figures, whether you want them static or dynamic 🌸

It lets you handle all the geometric types of data you could be obsessed with: points, vectors, lines, circles, or conics. Literally the whole squad. 🎀

The eukleides program itself is useful for converting Eukleides scripts into Encapsulated PostScript files. That's its moment, that's its era. It can also interpret scripts that use interactive variables into multi-page PostScript documents — which you can later turn into animated GIFs using, for instance, ImageMagick's convert(1). Animated. GIFs. From geometry. Slay. 🔥

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -l, --locale[=LANG] — use localized keywords 🫶 If you don't give it an argument, the current locale gets set to the value of the LANG environment variable. If you do give it one, LANG has to be a valid locale identifier, e.g. 'fr_FR' or 'fr_FR.utf8', depending on the default charmap. Heads up: this feature may be disabled 😭
• -o, --output[=OUTPUTFILE] — set an output file name 💖 If you give it no argument, the output stream gets set to standard output. Casual.
• -#, --interactive=STRING — modify interactive variables 🦋
• -a, --animate=STRING — animate an interactive script ✨
• -b, --batchmode[=DATAFILE] — don't stop for input 🙈 If you give it DATAFILE, it uses DATAFILE instead of standard input.
• -v, --version — print the version number and exit 👑
• -h, --help — print immediate help and exit 💅

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Christian Obrecht <obrecht at eukleides dot org>. 💜

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✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• Eukleides info pages for full documentation 📖
• euktopst(1), euktoeps(1), euktotex(1), euktopdf(1) 🧚

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