On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:01:39PM -0700, andlabs wrote: > > Hello. I'm getting ready to install Plan 9 from Bell Labs on an old computer > I have, and I noticed that it has a wonderful macro set called "mpictures", > which allows you to put a PostScript image within your document: > > .BP image.ps > .\" Minimal; this just puts the image in > .EP > > .BP image.ps 40 > .\" keeps the image within a 40x\n(.l invisible frame. > .EP > > .BP image.ps 300 300 r "" o "\fBhello\fP" > .\" resizes the image to a 300x300 square at the right of the page > .\" (the "" means no indent from that position; this is the default) > .\" and give it an outlined frame, under it put the words "Hello" in bold > All this text goes around the frame. > Using this space for text is useful. > The null argument was needed so I could use the others. > .br > .CW mpictures > does not only have this, but also a more powerful > .CW .PI > macro. > .EP > > I tried moving the file from Plan 9's distro to my tmac/ folder, but it > didn't go very nicely with groff. Does groff provide an alternative? Thanks. > --
not exactly, but `.PSPIC' comes close. cf. `man groff_tmac' joerg
