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GNU dvispell is a tool for converting DVI files into a readable text files. GNU dvispell pays special attention to converting accented characters. The resulting text file can be used for checking and spelling, but you need another program for doing that, dvispell won't do it.
dvispell [option] dvi_file [output_file]
The default extension of dvi_file is .dvi
.
If no output file has been specified, output is send to standard output.
GNU dvispell reads parameter from the binary parameter file
specified by the -d option. If -d has not been given,
the file plain.dsb will be used. If the file name does not
contain a directory name, the data
subdirectory of the
directory specified by the EMTEXDIR environment variable will
be searched. If EMTEXDIR is not set, the directory
/emtex/data
will be searched for the file. If the file
name contain a directory name, only that directory will
be searched.
Options are started by -
or --
or /
. The following
options are available:
-h
--help
-V
--version
-c NAME
--converson_table=NAME
-d FILE
--parameter-file=FILE
.dsb
, the default value is plain.dsb.
-l
--letters-only
-n
--page-number
-o NAME
--output-table=NAME
-q
--quiet
-u
--omit-unprintable
-v
--verbose
-w FACTOR
--word-space=FACTOR
-y FACTOR
--vert-space=FACTOR
The call
dvispell -c hyphen myfile.dvi myfile.txt
creates the text file myfile.txt from the DVI file myfile.dvi, concatenating hyphaneted words.
Use dvisprep to create a binary parameter file (such as plain.dsb) from parameter file in text format (such as plain.dsi). That is, to install dvispell, you have to type:
dvisprep /emtex/data/plain.dsi
See documentation for dvisprep for details on creating a binary parameter file and on the format on plain.dsi.
The plain.dsi file that comes with dvispell contains several conversion tables. The following conversion tables can be used with the -c option:
A search path for TFM files can come from many sources.
The functions that is responsible for looking tfm files are
kpse_set_progname
and kpse_find_tfm
from
kpathsea library. See kpathsea documentation
documentation for details of path searching mechanism.
In short, kpathsea searches dirextories pointed by:
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