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Fun patent of the day

Posted Aug 25, 2008 8:52 UTC (Mon) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Fun patent of the day by gjvo
Parent article: Fun patent of the day

Actually, the xdvi I've here scrolls back to the top left of the page on pgup/dn. But gv does it exactly as described, and how old is gv? Development started 1992. The current version is from 1997, this program is too good to need an update ;-).

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Posted Aug 25, 2008 19:08 UTC (Mon) by jedbrown (guest, #49919) [Link]

-keep (.keepPosition) Sets a flag to indicate that xdvi should not move to the home position when moving to a new page. See also the k' keystroke. This flag is only honoured by the up() and down() actions, not by up-or-previous() and down-or-next().

--keep

Posted Aug 31, 2008 20:36 UTC (Sun) by liamh (subscriber, #4872) [Link]

Yes, --keep. I always thought this was a great feature of xdvi. Since I have changed over exclusively to making pdfs (pdflatex), I miss this feature as xpdf does not seem to have anything equivalent. It's annoying to have to recenter the page every time a new page is displayed.

Liam