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.TH Crudetype 1 "Feb 1989"
.SH NAME
Crudetype \- Lineprinter output from DVI files.
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B crudetype
.RB "[\|" \-c
.IR countpages "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-f
.IR firstpage "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-m
.IR magnify "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-p
.IR printfile "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-q "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-r "\|]"
.RB "[\|" \-s "\|]"
.RI "[\|" dvifile "[\|" .dvi "\|]\|]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX crudetype"" "\fLcrudetype\fR \(em Lineprinter output from DVI files.''
.I Crudetype
takes a standard TeX DVI file and generates output
suitable for printing on a lineprinter. Of course no lineprinter can possibly
do justice to the power of TeX, but it does give a fairly good idea of what
your output would look like on a respectable printer.Thus
.I Crudetype
is very useful
in the early stages of
debugging TeX input, because you do not need any special equipment to run it
and lineprinter output is less expensive than laserprinter output. The output
file can also be
inspected with editors but for this you need a 132-column-wide
terminal. Also because VDUs cannot show overstruck characters, these appear
in incorrect positions.


.SH OPTIONS
.PP
.TP
.BI \-c " number"
Stop after this many pages. Normally 
.I Crudetype
will print all pages.
.TP
.BI \-f " number"
Start printing at the first page whose 
.I count0
parameter is greater than or equal to the specified number.
.TP
.BI \-m " number"
Magnify by (number)/100. Some magnification is needed because
most TeX characters are narrower than lineprinter characters. I
do not know any plausible algorithm for adjusting the magnification
according to the fonts being used. The least bad alternative seemed to
be to allow the user to specify a magnification; the default is
adjusted so some files look reasonable on a lineprinter.
.TP
.BI \-p " printfile"
Send output to the named file instead of the default. The  
default output file name is:
(current default directory)(DVI file name)(.lpr)
.TP
.B \-q
(quiet) Suppress information messages.
.TP
.B \-r
(run on) Suppress form feeds; instead 
.I Crudetype
prints a string 
like  ----- END OF PAGE n ----- .
.TP
.B \-s
(squash) Suppress blank lines in the printed output. Normally, 
output is double-spaced to allow space for super- and subscripts.

.SH AUTHOR
.PP
Program: R.M.Damerell, Maths Dept., RHBNC., Egham,
Surrey, U.K. Unix changefile: P.King, Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, U.K. Bug reports to RMD please, E-mail address 
DAMERELL  at  UK.AC.UCL.CS.NSS.
Program is copyright,
supplied free, AS IS with no guarantee of performance or support.