.TH LINSMITH 1 "November 2005" "Linsmith" .\" Copyrights 2005 by Margarita Manterola .\" This is free documentation, licensed under the GNU General Public .\" License. .SH NAME linsmith \- Smith charting program, designed for educational use. .SH SYNOPSIS .B linsmith .BR " [" \-d " " opts "] " .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page briefly documents .BR linsmith . It was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. A more complete manual is included (in PDF form) with the installation. .PP .B linSmith is a Smith Charting program, mainly designed for educational use. As such, there is an emphasis on capabilities that improve the 'showing the effect of'-style of operation. .PP It's main features are: .br * Definition of multiple load impedances (at different frequencies) .br * Addition of discrete (L, C, parallel and series LC, and transformer) and line components (open and closed stubs, line segments) .br * Connection in series and parallel .br * Easy experimentation with values using scrollbars .br * A 'virtual' component switches from impedance to admittance to help explaining (or understanding) parallel components .br * The chart works in real impedances (not normalized ones) .br * Direct view of the result on the screen .br * Ability to generate publication quality Postscript output .br * A 'log' file with textual results at each intermediate step .br * Load and circuit configuration is stored separately, permitting several solutions without re-defining the other .PP .SH OPTIONS This program is mainly designed for graphical use, and therefore does not have many options. A summary of options is included below. .TP .B \-h, \-? Show summary of options. .TP .BR \-d " items" Enables debugging. Possible debugging items: .br .BR l " - loads" .br .BR e " - elements" .br .BR g " - graphics" .br .BR p " - printing" .br .BR m " - math" .br .BR o " - logging" .SH AUTHOR linsmith was written by John Coppens. .PP This manual page was written by Margarita Manterola , for the Debian project, and is licensed under the GNU General Public License.