.\" Hey, EMACS: -*- nroff -*- .\" First parameter, NAME, should be all caps .\" Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection .\" other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1) .TH KIG 1 "October 16, 2004" .\" Please adjust this date whenever revising the manpage. .\" .\" Some roff macros, for reference: .\" .nh disable hyphenation .\" .hy enable hyphenation .\" .ad l left justify .\" .ad b justify to both left and right margins .\" .nf disable filling .\" .fi enable filling .\" .br insert line break .\" .sp <n> insert n+1 empty lines .\" for manpage-specific macros, see man(7) .SH NAME kig \- an interactive geometry program for KDE .SH SYNOPSIS .B kig .RI "[ " generic-options " ]" [ \fIURL\fP ] .br .B kig \-c, \-\-convert\-to\-native [ \fB\-o, \-\-outfile\fP \fInative-file\fP ] \fIfile\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBKig\fP is an application for interactive geometry. It is intended to serve two purposes: .PP .RS \- to allow students to interactively explore mathematical figures and concepts using the computer; .PP \- to serve as a WYSIWYG tool for drawing mathematical figures and including them in other documents. .RE .PP With this program you can do geometry on a computer just like you would on a blackboard in a classroom. However, the program allows you to move and change parts of a geometrical drawing so that you can see how the other parts change as a result. .PP Kig supports loci and user-defined macros. It also supports imports and exports to/from foreign file formats including Cabri, Dr. Geo, KGeo, KSeg and XFig. .PP This application is part of the official KDE edutainment module. .SH OPTIONS Below are the kig-specific options. For a full summary of options, run \fIkig \-\-help\fP. .TP .B \-c, \-\-convert\-to\-native Do not show a GUI. Instead, convert the specified file to the native Kig format. The native Kig file will be written to standard output unless \-\-outfile is passed (see below). .TP \fB\-o, \-\-outfile\fP \fInative-file\fP Used with \-\-convert\-to\-native to specify where to save the newly created Kig file. Note that a filename of '\-' means standard output (which is also the default). .SH SEE ALSO Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre. You can also enter the URL \fIhelp:/kig/\fP directly into konqueror or you can run `\fIkhelpcenter help:/kig/\fP' from the command-line. .PP If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package \fItdeedu-doc-html\fP and read this documentation in HTML format from \fI/opt/trinity/share/doc/tde/HTML/en/kig/\fP. .SH AUTHOR Kig was written by Dominique Devriese <devriese@kde.org>, Maurizio Paolini <paolini@dmf.bs.unicatt.it>, Franco Pasquarelli <pasqui@dmf.bs.unicatt.it>, Pino Toscano <toscano.pino@tiscali.it> and others. .br This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).