## E Key bindings for scratch drawings

### Entering scratch drawing mode

Press S to enter scratch drawing; the cursor is modified and you must click somewhere on the page to start drawing there. Before clicking, you can

- press ? to get help,
- press ^G to quit scratching immediately,
- press Esc to enter the scratch drawing settings mode and tune the color and size of the pen.

### Survival command kit when scratch drawing

Active-DVI recognizes the following keystrokes when scratch drawing on the page.

^G | quit | – | End of scratch drawing.
Esc | settings | – | Enter the scratch drawing settings mode.

In the scratch drawing settings mode, the cursor is modified and you can set some charateristics of the scratch drawing facility.

### Scratch drawing settings mode keys

When in the scratch drawing settings mode, the following keys have the following respective meanings:

#### General scratch drawing settings keys

- press ? to get help,
- press Esc to quit the settings mode,
- press ^G to quit scratching immediately.

#### Setting the drawing line color

b | blue | – | Set the color of the font to blue.
c | cyan | – | Set the color of the font to cyan.
g | green | – | Set the color of the font to green.
k | black | – | Set the color of the font to black.
m | magenta | – | Set the color of the font to magenta.
r | red | – | Set the color of the font to red.
w | white | – | Set the color of the font to white.
y | yellow | – | Set the color of the font to yellow.
B | more blue | – | Increment the blue component of the current color.
G | more green | – | Increment the green component of the current color.
R | more red | – | Increment the red component of the current color.
+ | positive increment | – | Set the color increment to positive.
− | negative increment | – | Set the color increment to negative.

#### Setting the drawing line size

> | increment | – | Increment by one the size of the line.
< | decrement | – | Decrement by one the size of the line.

#### Setting the kind of figure to draw

In the setting mode, pressing one of the following keys enter the (still experimental) figure drawing mode:

V | vertical line | – | Draw a vertical line.
H | horizontal line | – | Draw a horizontal line.
S | segment | – | Draw a segment.
C | circle | – | Draw a circle.
p | point | – | Draw a point.
P | polygone | – | Draw a polygone.
e | endpoly | – | Close the polygone that is beeing drawn.
F | free hand | – | Draw a line following the pointer.
’ ’ | cancel | – | Cancel the figure setting.