eqn2graph - convert an EQN equation into a cropped image
eqn2graph [ -unsafe ] [ -format fmt ]
EQN2GRAPH(1) General Commands Manual EQN2GRAPH(1) NAME eqn2graph - convert an EQN equation into a cropped image SYNOPSIS eqn2graph [ -unsafe ] [ -format fmt ] DESCRIPTION Reads an EQN equation (one line) as input; produces an image file (by default in Portable Network Graphics format) suitable for the Web as output. Your input EQN code should not have the .EQ/.EN preamble that that nor- mally precedes it within groff(1) macros; nor do you need to have dol- lar-sign or other delimiters around the equation. The output image will be clipped to the smallest possible bounding box that contains all the black pixels. Older versions of convert(1) will produce a black-on-white graphic; newer ones may produce a black-on- transparent graphic. By specifying command-line options to be passed to convert(1) you can give it a border, force the background transpar- ent, set the image's pixel density, or perform other useful transforma- tions. This program uses geqn(1), groff(1), and the ImageMagick convert(1) program. These programs must be installed on your system and accessi- ble on your $PATH for eqn2graph to work. OPTIONS -unsafe Run groff(1) in the `unsafe' mode enabling the PIC macro sh to execute arbitrary commands. The default is to forbid this. -format fmt Specify an output format; the default is PNG (Portable Network Graphics). Any format that convert(1) can emit is supported. Command-line switches and arguments not listed above are passed to con- vert(1). FILES /usr/share/groff/1.22.2/tmac/eqnrc The geqn(1) initialization file. ENVIRONMENT GROFF_TMPDIR The directory in which temporary files will be created. If this is not set eqn2graph searches the environment variables TMPDIR, TMP, and TEMP (in that order). Otherwise, temporary files will be created in /tmp. BUGS Due to changes in the behavior of ImageMagick convert(1) that are both forward and backward-incompatible, mismatches between your eqn2graph and convert(1) versions may produce zero-sized or untrimmed output images. For this version of eqn2graph you will need a version of con- vert(1) that supports the -trim option; older versions of eqn2graph used -crop 0x0, which no longer has trimming behavior. ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +---------------+------------------+ |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +---------------+------------------+ |Availability | text/groff | +---------------+------------------+ |Stability | Uncommitted | +---------------+------------------+ SEE ALSO pic2graph(1), grap2graph(1), geqn(1), groff(1), gs(1), convert(1). AUTHOR Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>. NOTES This software was built from source available at https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original community source was downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.22.2.tar.gz Further information about this software can be found on the open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/. Groff Version 1.22.2 7 February 2013 EQN2GRAPH(1)