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dmp: translate Troff output to low-level MetaPost input

Command to display dmp manual in Linux: $ man 1 dmp

NAME

dmp - translate Troff output to low-level MetaPost input

SYNOPSIS

dmp [option] ditrofffile [mpxfile]

DESCRIPTION

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.