dvipos(1)

1DVIPOS(1)                           ConTeXt                          DVIPOS(1)
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NAME

6       dvipos - compute positions in a DVI file
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SYNOPSIS

10       dvipos [ OPTION... ] infile[.dvi]
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DESCRIPTION

14       dvipos  parses a DVI file looking for pos: specials.  It currently rec‐
15       ognizes  pos:pxy,  pos:pxywhd,  pos:pxyplus,  pos:begbox,   pos:endbox,
16       pos:beglines,  and  pos:endlines.  It then outputs the information from
17       those specials along with information that  only  a  DVI  postprocessor
18       could  determine,  such  as  the  current x and y location.  The output
19       looks like:
20          \pospxywhd{text:54}{54}{10663sp}{8535sp}{21326sp}{34081sp}{0sp}
21       and is suitable for including in a tex(1) or pdftex(1) auxiliary  file,
22       such  as  document.tuo,  to be read in by the next run of the tex(1) or
23       similar typesetting engine.
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OPTIONS

27       -h, --help
28              print usage.
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30       -W, --warning
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37              print dvitype(1) debugging data.
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39       -s, --smashchars
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42       -o, --output=FILE
43              send all output to FILE.  Without this option,  output  goes  to
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50              request  copy  of DVI file, BASE.dvi, with bounding boxes framed
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54       -m, --mag=INT
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USAGE

65       dvipos  is run mostly behind the scenes by ConTeXt's texexec(1) between
66       runs of tex(1) or pdftex(1), in order to provide information to and get
67       information  about positional graphics.  These graphics are provided by
68       the MetaFun interface to mpost(1).  dvipos is not used (or  needed)  in
69       PDF-output  mode but is needed for DVI-output mode.  pdftex(1) starting
70       with version 1.40 can produce position information even in DVI mode, so
71       once  the  ConTeXt  macros take advantage of this feature, the need for
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74       Until then, here is a typical use of dvipos:
75          dvipos notes.dvi
76       The position information that is output is collected by  texexec(1)  to
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EXAMPLES

82       Extract positions from doc.dvi, with output to doc.loc:
83              dvipos -o doc.loc doc.dvi
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85       Same as above, but also send bbox information to doc.pos:
86              dvipos -b -o doc.loc doc.dvi
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88       Instead send bbox information to /tmp/debug.pos:
89              dvipos -b=/tmp/debug.pos -o doc.loc doc.dvi
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BUGS

100       If you specify a file for the -b option, you must join the  option  and
101       name with = rather than (the more common) space:
102          dvipos -b=/tmp/debug.pos notes.dvi
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104          dvipos -b /tmp/debug.pos notes.dvi
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AUTHOR

109       dvipos  is  written  by Jin-Hwan Cho <chofchof@ktug.or.kr>.  It is free
110       software (GPLv2 or later).  This manpage was written by Sanjoy  Mahajan
111       <sanjoy@mit.edu>  and  is  in the public domain.  It is currently main‐
112       tained as part of TeX Live.
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