readDVI: Read DVI File
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readDVI

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Read DVI File

Description

Read a DVI file (produced by LaTeX) into R.

Usage

readDVI(file)

Arguments

file

A character value giving the name of a DVI file.

Details

A "DVI" object is a list of memory blocks (as produced by functions from the hexView package), with one block per DVI operation.

This is the detailed, byte-level contents of the DVI file.

Value

A "DVI" object.

There is a print method that produces a nice human-readable format.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell

Examples

readDVI(system.file("DVI", "test-pdftex.dvi", package="xdvir"))
readDVI(system.file("DVI", "test-luatex.dvi", package="xdvir"))
readDVI(system.file("DVI", "test-xetex.xdv", package="xdvir"))
readDVI(system.file("DVI", "test-uptex.dvi", package="xdvir"))

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