DISDVI(1)

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✨ DISDVI(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

💖 NAME

disdvi — "disassemble" a (p)TeX or XeTeX DVI file 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS

disdvi [-p][-u][-Eenc] [dvi_file[.dvi]]
disdvi -x [xdv_file[.xdv]]
disdvi -h

🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so disdvi is the tool that reads through a DVI file (or an xdv file) and prints every DVI command and piece of text in a human-readable ASCII/multibyte format to standard output. it's giving X-ray vision for your typesetting 🔥✨

💅 OPTIONS

  • -p — handle an ASCII pTeX DVI file 🍓
  • -u — handle an upTeX DVI file 🧚
  • -Eenc — set the output multibyte encoding. the enc argument is one of 'e', 's', 'j', or 'u', which mean EUC-JP, Shift_JIS, ISO-2022-JP, and UTF-8 respectively 🌈
  • -x — handle a XeTeX xdv file 💜
  • -h — show a help message and exit successfully 🫶

🌸 SEE ALSO

dvi2tty(1) 💀

👑 AUTHOR

Marcel J.E. Mol, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands marcel@mesa.nl, MESA Consulting 🫶

bestie, that's the whole thing!! 🎀✨ it was written by Marcel J.E. Mol and the page is DISDVI(1), dated 1 May 2022 🦋 stay iconic and keep those DVI files looking cute 💖💅

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