TGTT(1)

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General Commands Manual · tgtt · section 1 ✨

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✨ NAME ✨

tgtt — Tool for Generic Textual Trees. that's it, that's the name, and honestly? iconic. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tgtt [options] [tree]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so tgtt is an X11/Motif based graphical editor for drawing generic textual trees. like, you draw them. with a mouse. on a screen. slay. 💅

Trees can be loaded from and stored to a file. it can also print trees to a PostScript printer, or save as PostScript to a file. no cap.

tgtt is part of The Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling (TCM). 🫶

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👑 ARGUMENTS 👑

you can call tgtt with a single tree name as argument. here's the tea:

• if that argument is an existing file, tgtt tries to load a tree from it.
• if it does not exist, a new tree is created with the argument as the tree name.

tgtt files should have suffix *.gtt. periodt. ✨

Without a tree argument, tgtt creates a new empty generic tree with the name untitled.gtt. it's giving blank canvas, main character energy. 🎀

In addition to the standard X11 toolkit options (see X11(7)), tgtt accepts the options listed below:

• -drawing widthxheight — create a drawing area of width pixels wide and height pixels high. 🖼️
• -help — write all available options to standard output and quit. the little "what can u even do" button, love her. 💜
• -maxdrawing widthxheight — the drawing area can not be larger than width pixels wide and height pixels high. it's a boundary, bestie, respect it. 🚧
• -priv_cmap — start the editor with a private colormap. fancy colors, your own rules. 🌈
• -projdir directory — set the project directory (current working directory) to directory. 📁
• -toEPS [file.eps] — generate EPS (to file.eps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 💫
• -toFig [file.fig] [-latex] — generate Fig format (to file.fig, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. When the -latex option is given, LaTeX fonts are generated, otherwise normal PostScript fonts are generated. The Fig format can be read by xfig(1) and fig2dev(1). 🔥
• -toPNG file.png — generate PNG format to file.png and quit. png era, we love to see it. 🖼️
• -toPS [file.ps] — generate PostScript (to file.ps, or to stdout when no file name was given) and quit. 🖨️
• -version — write the TCM version to standard output and quit. tell me who u are, queen. 👑

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• TCM_HOME — should be the directory where the TCM files are installed. 🏠
• PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/bin
• MANPATH — should include $TCM_HOME/man
• PRINTER — name of the default printer that is used by tgtt. 🖨️
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH — should include $TCM_HOME/lib when the distribution contains shared object libraries in $TCM_HOME/lib.

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🎀 FILES 🎀

The following relative files are relative to $TCM_HOME. 📂

• bin/tgtt — the generic textual tree editor. (that's her!! the girl herself 💖)
• bin/psf — a program to filter PostScript output. 🌀
• lib/banner.ps — PostScript banner page that can be used when the printer does not print a banner page. 🏷️
• lib/help/* — the help directory contains a collection of text files for the on-line help. 🆘
• lib/TCM — X Resources (the same as the ones that are built-in). You can customize the fonts and colors by setting resources in your X defaults database. Each string of the form ``TCM.resource:definition'' sets a resource. 🎨
• /tmp/tcmXXXXXX — pseudo random temporary file, for PostScript output. it's random, it's temporary, it's living in /tmp, we stan a chaotic queen. 💀
• lib/tcm.conf — TCM editor configuration file. This file contains values for some of the editor defaults like the page size, the default fonts, etc. This file is read by each editor upon startup. 📖
• $HOME/.tcmrc — each user of TCM can override some of the options of tcm.conf by its own configuration file, installed in $HOME/.tcmrc. your personal era. 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Frank Dehne, Roel Wieringa and Henk van de Zandschulp — TCM (Toolkit for Conceptual Modeling), User's Guide and Reference. This document is available as PostScript and HTML in $TCM_HOME/doc or as HTML via the URL http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~tcm/tcm-usersguide.html. 📚

tcm(1), X11(7), xfig(1), fig2dev(1)

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Frank Dehne (frank@cs.vu.nl). the founder, the blueprint, the original. 🫶

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😭 BUGS 😭

Please send bug reports to tcm@cs.utwente.nl. (not me being the bug reporter fr fr 🙈)

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ngl this page is from the General Commands Manual era, dated 9 January 2000. vintage. archival. still slaying. 💖✨

ok bye bestie, go draw some trees 🌸🦋🎀