PXDVI key commands

Some commands take a numerical argument which must be entered before the kestroke command. For example the command 15g will cause the display to go to page 15.

Help and Exiting

H or ? or Help

Displays this help text.

q or Control-C or Control-D

Quits the program.

Page Motion

n or f or Space or Return or LineFeed or PgDn

Moves to the next page (or to the nth next page if a number is given).

p or b or Control-H or BackSpace or DELete or PgUp

Moves to the previous page (or back n pages).

k or Control-P or Up-arrow

Moves up two thirds of a window-full.

j or Control-N or Down-arrow

Moves down two thirds of a window-full.

h or or Contorl-B or Left-arrow

Moves left two thirds of a window-full.

l or Right-arrow

Moves right two thirds of a window-full.

g or j or End

Moves to the page with the given number. If no page number is given, then it goes to the last page.

<

Move to first page in document.

>

Move to last page in document.

Other Commands

Control-A or Again

Repeat last command (including its argument).

Control-L or Clear

Redisplays the current page.

^ or Home

Move to the ``home'' position of the page. This is normally the upper left-hand corner of the page, depending on the margins as described in the -margins option, above.

c

Moves the page so that the point currently beneath the cursor is moved to the middle of the window. It also (gasp!) warps the cursor to the same place.

G

This key toggles the use of greyscale anti-aliasing for displaying shrunken bitmaps. In addition, the key sequences `0G' and `1G' clear and set this flag, respectively. See also the -nogrey option.

K

Normally when xdvi switches pages, it moves to the home position as well. The `k' keystroke toggles a `keep- position' flag which, when set, will keep the same position when moving between pages. Also `0k' and `1k' clear and set this flag, respectively. See also the -keep option.

M

Sets the margins so that the point currently under the cursor is the upper left-hand corner of the text in the page. Note that this command itself does not move the image at all. For details on how the margins are used, see the -margins option.

R

Forces the dvi file to be reread. This allows you to preview many versions of the same file while running xdvi only once.

s

Changes the shrink factor to the given number. If no number is given, the smallest factor that makes the entire page fit in the window will be used. (Margins are ignored in this computation.)

S

Sets the density factor to be used when shrinking bitmaps. This should be a number between 0 and 100; higher numbers produce lighter characters.

T

Toggles to the next unit in a sorted list of TeX dimension units for the popup magnifier ruler.

x

Toggles expert mode (in which the buttons do not appear). Also `0x' and `1x' clear and enable this mode, respectively. See also the -expert option.

V

Toggles Ghostscript anti-aliasing. Also `0V' and `1V' clear and enables this mode, respectively. See also the the -gsalpha option.

Control-F

Find another DVI file.

B

Go back to the previous anchor.

F

Follow hyperlink forward.