NAME
kig - an interactive geometry program for KDE
SYNOPSIS
kig
[ generic-options ]
[ URL ]
kig -c, --convert-to-native
[ -o, --outfile native-file ]
file
DESCRIPTION
Kig is an application for interactive geometry. It is intended to
serve two purposes:
- to allow students to interactively explore mathematical figures and
concepts using the computer;
- to serve as a WYSIWYG tool for drawing mathematical figures and
including them in other documents.
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.
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.
This application is part of the official KDE edutainment module.
OPTIONS
Below are the kig-specific options.
For a full summary of options, run kig --help.
-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).
-o, --outfile native-file
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).
SEE ALSO
Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre.
You can also enter the URL
help:/kig/
directly into konqueror or you can run
`khelpcenter help:/kig/'
from the command-line.
If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package
kdeedu-doc-html and read this documentation in HTML format from
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kig/.
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.
This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton <bab@debian.org>
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
