Overview



Xclamation is a desktop publishing application designed for the personal publication of documents with layouts too complex for simple word-processing software. It allows users to arrange text, graphics, tables and other items according to their preference.


Creating a Document

Page layouts are made up of frames. A frame is a pregnant geometric shape whose outline delimits the visible portion of the object inside the frame part of a document, for example.

There are two steps to creating an Xclamation document:

  1. Frame placement on the page. Placement is effected via frame creation, adjustments of frame size and shape, and by the frame's positioning on the page in relation to other frames.
     
  2. Object placement inside frame. To place an object, import it to a frame and adjust the object to fit your specific needs using the corresponding horizontal toolbar tools for that object type (text, image, or line art).

    The user may still modify frame attributes after having placed an object inside the frame.

Xclamation has multi-document capabilities. It's possible to open more than one document at a time, for example, in order to make exchanges between documents.

Xclamation also offers a text editor to help perfect its own texts and enhance imported ones. The editor can insert special characters like accent marks or symbols using various key-combinations. Il est également possible de rentrer des caractères spéciaux grâce à la boîte de dialogue 'Table des caractères'.



The Launch

usage: Xcl [-help] [-version] [-fg <color>] [-bg <color>] [-display <displayname>] [-geometry <geom>] [-/+opaqueResize] [-opaqueMove <percentage>] [-keepFreeColor <number>] [files ...]

detail: -help, --help, -h
displays a summary of command line parameters.

-version, -v
displays Xclamation's version number.

-fg color
defines foreground color.

-bg color
defines background color.

-display host:dpy
specifies X server to be used.

-geometry geom
determines size of main window.

-opaqueResize
annuls opaque mode's re-sizing of the internal window manager.

+opaqueResize
activates opaque mode's re-sizing of the internal window manager.

-opaqueMove percentage
Sets the percentage of desktop area in which the document window must fit in opaque mode.

-keepFreeColor number
Sets number of colors to be available for use in other X applications. For a palette of 256 colors this value is 10 by default. This option may only be useful when your X server works with Pseudo-color.

--xbugline, -xbugline, -xbl
Correct a bug with some video driver. You'll have to use this parameter only if lines in vector based drawings are misplaced.

--xbugpoint, -xbugpoint, -xbp
Correct a bug with some video driver. You'll have to use this parameter only if screen fonts are not displayed fine.



Xclamation (c)1996-98 Axene