dmp(1)

dmp1

Translate troff output to low-level metapost input

Usage

dmp [option] ditrofffile [mpxfile]

Overview

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

The dmp program generates MetaPost source code from the ditrofffile. The generated code is written in mpxfile if it is specified, and to standard output otherwise.

dmp is typically called from scripts like makempx, not from the command line.

Options

dmp accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

Releases

8 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0

--help since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); --version since Debian 2.0 (Hamm).

From texlive-metapost 2007.dfsg.2-4+lenny3 in Debian 5.0 (Lenny). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.