gperiodic (1)

Leading comments

Hey, EMACS: 
First parameter, NAME, should be all caps
Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection
other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)

(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man1/gperiodic.1".)

NAME

gperiodic - periodic table application

SYNOPSIS

gperiodic [option(s)] [element_symbol | atomic_number]

DESCRIPTION

gperiodic is a small X/GTK+-based program which allows you to browse through a periodic table of chemical elements, and view somewhat detailed information on each of the elements. 118 elements are currently listed.

OPTIONS

Zero options will start gperiodic.

-h

Show the help screen.

-c <Temp>

Color the elements according to their phase at temperature <Temp> in Kelvins.

-D

Dump the periodic table.

-v

Be verbose.

Possible arguments:

element_symbol | atomic_number

Display information on the element with the given element symbol or atomic number. The output is UTF-8 encoded (see Debian bug #466231).

AUTHOR

The program was originally written by Kyle R. Burton. The current author is Jonas Frantz <jonas.frantz@helsinki.fi>.

This manual page was written by Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).