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1.1       root        1: .TH RULER 9.1
                      2: .CT 1 comm_term
                      3: .SH NAME
                      4: ruler \- measure things on the screen
                      5: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      6: .B ruler
                      7: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      8: .I Ruler
                      9: measures things on a
                     10: .IR mux (9.1)
                     11: screen.
                     12: Press button 1 to sweep out a rectangle anywhere on the screen.
                     13: For each rectangle swept,
                     14: .I ruler
                     15: displays the coordinates of the rectangle's corners (labeled
                     16: .B down
                     17: and
                     18: .BR up ),
                     19: the size
                     20: of the rectangle and length of its diagonal.
                     21: .LP
                     22: There is
                     23: a menu on button 3.
                     24: The
                     25: .B pixels
                     26: and
                     27: .B chars
                     28: items control whether the size and diagonal are measured
                     29: in units of pixels or characters;
                     30: .B stop
                     31: deactivates
                     32: .I ruler
                     33: without exiting;
                     34: .B measure
                     35: reactivates
                     36: .IR ruler .
                     37: .SH BUGS
                     38: Character units are arbitrarily defined as the width and height of a 
                     39: .L 0
                     40: in the
                     41: .I ruler
                     42: layer.
                     43: This may have nothing to do with character sizes in other layers.
                     44: .br
                     45: Ruler's menu must pop up in its own layer, perhaps far
                     46: away from the cursor.

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