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      1 .TH TWEAK 1
      2 .CT 1 graphics
      3 .SH NAME
      4 tweak \- edit image files, subfont files, face files, etc.
      5 .SH SYNOPSIS
      6 .B tweak
      7 [
      8 .I file ...
      9 ]
     10 .SH DESCRIPTION
     11 .I Tweak
     12 edits existing files holding various forms of images.
     13 To create original images, start from an existing image, subfont, etc.
     14 .PP
     15 .I Tweak
     16 reads its argument
     17 .I files
     18 and displays the resulting images in a vertical column.
     19 If the image is too wide to fit across the display, it
     20 is folded much like a long line of text in an
     21 .IR rio
     22 window.
     23 Under each image is displayed one or two lines of text
     24 presenting its parameters.
     25 The first line shows the image's
     26 .BR depth ,
     27 the number
     28 of bits per pixel;
     29 .BR r ,
     30 the rectangle covered by the image;
     31 and the name of the
     32 .B file
     33 from which it was read.
     34 If the file is a subfont, a second line presents a hexadecimal 16-bit
     35 .B offset
     36 to be applied to character values from the subfont
     37 (typically as stored in a font file; see
     38 .MR font (7) );
     39 and the subfont's
     40 .BR n ,
     41 .BR height ,
     42 and
     43 .B ascent
     44 as defined in
     45 .MR cachechars (3) .
     46 .PP
     47 By means described below, magnified views of portions of the images
     48 may be displayed.
     49 The text associated with such a view includes
     50 .BR mag ,
     51 the magnification.
     52 If the view is of a single character from a subfont, the second
     53 line of text shows the character's value (including the subfont's offset)
     54 in hexadecimal and as a character in
     55 .I tweak's
     56 default font; the character's
     57 .BR x ,
     58 .BR top ,
     59 .BR bottom ,
     60 .BR left ,
     61 and
     62 .BR width
     63 as defined in
     64 .MR cachechars (3) ;
     65 and
     66 .BR iwidth ,
     67 the physical width of the image in the subfont's image.
     68 .PP
     69 There are two methods to obtain a magnified view of a character from a
     70 subfont.
     71 The first is to click mouse button 1 over the image of the character in
     72 the subfont.  The second is to select the
     73 .B char
     74 entry on the button 3 menu,
     75 point the resulting gunsight cursor at the desired subfont and click button 3,
     76 and then type at the text prompt at the bottom of the screen the
     77 character value, either as a multi-digit hexadecimal number or as a single
     78 rune representing the character.
     79 .PP
     80 To magnify a portion of other types of image files,
     81 click button 1 over the unmagnified file.
     82 The cursor will switch to a cross.
     83 Still with button 1, sweep a rectangle, as in
     84 .BR rio ,
     85 that encloses the portion of the image to be magnified.
     86 (If the file is 16×16 or smaller,
     87 .I tweak
     88 will just magnify the entire file; no sweeping is necessary.)
     89 .PP
     90 Pressing buttons 1 and 2 within magnified images changes pixel values.
     91 By default, button 1 sets the pixel to all zeros and button 2 sets the pixel
     92 to all ones.
     93 .PP
     94 Across the top of the screen is a textual display of global parameters.
     95 These values, as well as many of the textual values associated with
     96 the images, may be edited by clicking button 1 on the displayed
     97 value and typing a new value.
     98 The values along the top of the screen are:
     99 .TP
    100 .B mag
    101 Default magnification.
    102 .TP
    103 .B val(hex)
    104 The value used to modify pixels within magnified images.
    105 The value must be in hexadecimal, optionally preceded by a
    106 tilde for bitwise negation.
    107 .TP
    108 .B but1
    109 .TP
    110 .B but2
    111 The pixel value written when the corresponding button is pressed over a pixel.
    112 .TP
    113 .B invert-on-copy
    114 Whether the pixel values are inverted when a
    115 .B copy
    116 operation is performed.
    117 .PP
    118 Under button 3 is a menu holding a variety of functions.
    119 Many of these functions prompt for the image upon which to act
    120 by switching to a gunsight cursor; click button 3 over the
    121 selection, or click a different button to cancel the action.
    122 .TP
    123 .B open
    124 Read and display a file.  The name of the file is typed to the prompt
    125 on the bottom line.
    126 .TP
    127 .B read
    128 Reread a file.
    129 .TP
    130 .B write
    131 Write a file.
    132 .TP
    133 .B copy
    134 Use the copy function, default
    135 .BR S ,
    136 to transfer a rectangle of pixels from one image to another.
    137 The program prompts with a cross cursor; sweep out a rectangle in
    138 one image or just click button 3 to select the whole image.
    139 The program will leave that rectangle in place and
    140 attach another one to the cursor.  Move that rectangle to the desired
    141 place in any image and click button 3, or another button to cancel the action.
    142 .TP
    143 .B char
    144 As described above, open a magnified view of a character image in a subfont.
    145 .TP
    146 .B pixels
    147 Report the coordinate and value of individual pixels indicated by pressing button 3.
    148 This is a mode of operation canceled by pressing button 1 or 2.
    149 .TP
    150 .B close
    151 Close the specified image.
    152 If the image is the unmagnified file, also close any magnified views of that file.
    153 .TP
    154 .B exit
    155 Quit
    156 .IR tweak .
    157 The program will complain once about modified but unwritten files.
    158 .SH SOURCE
    159 .B \*9/src/cmd/draw/tweak.c
    160 .SH "SEE ALSO"
    161 .MR cachechars (3) ,
    162 .MR image (7) ,
    163 .MR font (7)
    164 .SH BUGS
    165 For a program written to adjust width tables in fonts,
    166 .I tweak
    167 has been pushed unreasonably far.