COL2PSALIGN

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2000
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NAME

col2psalign - Make postscript alignment from col file

 

SYNOPSIS

col2psalign

[-ple] [-rrange | -range=range] [-ffontsize | --fit] [--space] [--width=width] [--height=height] [--margin=margin] [--topmargin=topmargin] [--sidemargin=sidemargin] [--namewidth=namewidth] [--textwidth=textwidth] [--lineheight=lineheight] [--figure] [file]

 

DESCRIPTION

col2psalign creates a postscript file that shows the sequences in the input file. It is assumed that the input file contains aligned sequences, such that they are equal in length (including gaps).

Input is either from file or stdin. The output is sent to stdout.

 

OPTIONS

col2psalign accepts the following options.

-p

--portrait

Makes portrait output instead of landscape.

-l

--letter

Uses letter paper format instead of the default A4.

-e

--empty

Prints colors as empty boxes instead of filled boxes behind letters.

-rrange

--range=range

Only prints the positions defined by range. The range is specified as position intervals seperated by commas, like `-r1-20,50-100,139' which makes col2psalign output positions 1-20, 50-100, and 139.

-ffontsize

--fontsize=fontsize

Sets the font size to fontsize. The default is 8.

--space

Inserts spaces for every ten positions.

--fit

Fits the entire alignment to the page width, unless the --textwidth option is used, in which case it fits textwidth characters of the alignment to the page width.

--width=width

Sets the page width to width, which by default is points, but if followed by cm, it is centimeters. If followed by in or inch, it is in inches. for example, if range is 720, the page width is 720 points, if range is 10in or 10inch, the page width is 10 inches, if range is 25.4cm, the page width is 25.4 centimeters. These values are by the way identical.

--height=height

Sets the page height to height, the format of which is described under --width.

--margin=margin

--topmargin=topmargin

--sidemargin=sidemargin

Sets all margins, the top/bottom margins, and the sidemargins respectively. The format of the values are as described under --width. The default is 20 points.

--namewidth=namewidth

Sets the width of the sequnece names to namewidth. The units of namewidth is the fontsize. The default value is 8. This means that the sequence name width is 64 points (since the default font size is 8).

--textwidth=textwidth

Sets the width of the sequence field to textwidth. The units of textwidth is characters. Notice that a space is inserted for each 10 positions. These spaces are also counted. This means that textwidth should be 54 if 50 positions should be displayed in every line (since 4 spaces are inserted).

--lineheight=lineheight

Sets the height of the lines to lineheight times the default.

--figure

Makes the outputs useful as a figure.

 

EXAMPLES

Make a figure of width 12 cm that has no margins and each sequence is in one line:

col2psalign --figure --margin=0 --width=12cm --fit foo.col

Make a postscript file with fontsize 36. On portrait pages. The name space is smaller than default:

col2psalign -p -f36 --namewidth=5 foo.col

Make a portrait postscript file with 20 sequence position on each line (notice the 21 because of the space character between blocks of 10 positions):

col2psalign --space -p --textwidth=21 --fit foo.col

 

BUGS

Report bugs to col-bugs@bioinf.au.dk.

 

AUTHOR

Bjarne Knudsen (bk@daimi.au.dk)

 

SEE ALSO

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