NAME
asy - Asymptote: a script-based vector graphics
language
SYNOPSIS
asy [options][file...]
DESCRIPTION
Asymptote is a powerful descriptive
vector graphics language for technical drawings, inspired by
MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides
for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX
does for scientific text.
OPTIONS
If no arguments are given, Asymptote runs in
interactive mode.
If "-" is given as the file argument, Asymptote reads from
standard input.
A summary of options is included below. The effect of most
options can be negated by prepending no to the option name.
Default values for most options may also be entered in the file
.asy/config.asy in the user's home directory using the long
form:
import settings;
batchView=true;
For a complete description, see the Info files.
- -V, -View
- View output.
- -a, -align C|B|T|Z
- Center, Bottom, Top, or Zero page alignment [Center].
- -autoplain
- Enable automatic importing of plain [true].
- -autorotate
- Enable automatic PDF page rotation [false].
- -batchMask
- Mask fpu exceptions in batch mode [false].
- -batchView
- View output in batch mode [false].
- -bw
- Convert all colors to black and white [false].
- -c, -clearGUI
- Clear GUI operations [false].
- -cmyk
- Convert rgb colors to cmyk [false].
- -d, -debug
- Enable debugging messages [false].
- -x, -deconstruct X
- Deconstruct into transparent GIF objects magnified by X.
- -gray
- Convert all colors to grayscale [false].
- -h, -help
- Show summary of options.
- -historylines n
- Retain n lines of history [1000].
- -i, -ignoreGUI
- Ignore GUI operations [false].
- -inlinetex
- Generate inline tex code [false].
- -interactiveMask
- Mask fpu exceptions in interactive mode [true].
- -interactiveView
- View output in interactive mode [true].
- -k, -keep
- Keep intermediate files [false].
- -l, -listvariables
- List available global functions and variables [false].
- -localhistory
- Use a local interactive history file [false].
- -m, -mask
- Mask fpu exceptions.
- -multipleView
- View output from multiple batch-mode files [false].
- -O, -offset pair
- PostScript offset [(0,0)].
- -f, -outformat format
- Convert each output file to specified format [eps].
- -o, -outname name
- Alternative output name for first file.
- -p, -parseonly
- Parse file [false].
- -prompt string
- Prompt ["> "].
- -q, -quiet
- Suppress welcome message [false].
- -rgb
- Convert cmyk colors to rgb [false].
- -safe
- Disable system call [true].
- -scroll n
- Scroll standard output n lines at a time [0].
- -tabcompletion
- Interactive prompt auto-completion [true].
- -tex engine
- TeX engine ("latex|pdflatex|tex|pdftex|none") ["latex"].
- -s, -translate
- Show translated virtual machine code [false].
- -twice
- Run LaTeX twice (to resolve references) [false].
- -unsafe
- Enable system call [false].
- -u, -user x
- General purpose user string [""].
- -v, -verbose
- Increase verbosity level [0].
SEE ALSO
Asymptote is documented fully in the asymptote
Info page. The manual can also be accessed in interactive mode with
the "help" command.
AUTHOR
Asymptote was written by Andy Hammerlindl, John
Bowman, and Tom Prince.
This manual page was written by Hubert Chan for the Debian
project (but may be used by others).