NAME
       opetope2dot
       
SYNOPSIS
       opetope2dot  XMLFILE
       opetope2pdf  XMLFILE

DESCRIPTION
       Opetope2dot - commandline utilies for opetope-XML to dot conversion.
       
       The notion of opetope (invented by J.Baez and J.Dolan) and the
       algorithms implemented in the scripts refer to the paper
       "Polynomial functors and opetopes" by J.Kock, A.Joyal, M.Batanin,
       and J.-F.Mascari, available from ArXiv:math.QA/.
       
       The scripts require Tcl installed with the tDOM extension.
       
       The following commands can be run from the command line.
       They take opetope xml files as input and produce a dot or pdf file.
       
opetope2dot  XMLFILE
       Generates a dot file corresponding to the opetope encoded in 
       XMLFILE.

opetope2pdf  XMLFILE0
       Generates a dot file corresponding to the opetope encoded in 
       XMLFILE.  If the dot interpreter can be found, it will also attempt
       to call it to generate pdf output.  Since in many cases dot is not
       installed in the PATH, it is necessary to tell the script where
       it can be found.  This is done by editing the last line in the file
       opetope-scripts/tcl/configuration.  The script also relies on
       ps2pdf13, assumed to exist.
       
              
FILES
       The main files "opetope-scripts/tcl/opetopes.tcl" and 
       "opetope-scripts/tcl/opetope2dot.tcl" are sourced from within the
       above shell scripts.
       
       The DTD file "opetope-scripts/xml/opetope.xml" is needed internally 
       to parse the opetope xml files.
       
       The file "opetope-scripts/tcl/configuration" is helpful to deal
       with setting some paths.
       
       The file "opetope-scripts/dot/opetope-settings.dot" contains a few
       settings for dot.  To change the dot layout, change parameters in
       this file.
       
SEE ALSO
       The paper "Polynomial functors and opetopes (footnote to a paper of
       Baez and Dolan)", by by J.Kock, A.Joyal, M.Batanin, and
       J.-F.Mascari (ArXiv:math.QA/1234567), as well as the referred-to
       paper "Higher-Dimensional Algebra III: n-Categories and the Algebra
       of Opetopes" by J.Baez and J.Dolan (ArXiv:q-alg/9702014).

AUTHOR
       Joachim Kock <kock@mat.uab.cat>
       
COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Joachim Kock.  All rights reserved.  
       Distributed under a BSD-style license (see the accompanying file 
       "license").
