Dear Gaius, Good point, I wanted to create a minimal working example, which created the same (missing) output as my reallife example. And it did, but I think there's another issue. When changing -ms to -mm (the macro I'm using): No images are created.
Thus, groff -p -mm -Thtml foo.n results in: <!-- Creator : groff version 1.23.0 --> <!-- CreationDate: Wed Nov 29 16:03:10 2023 --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"> p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } h1 { text-align: center } </style> <title></title> </head> <body> <hr> <p style="margin-top: 1em">- 1 -</p> <hr> </body> </html> Maybe groff_mm(7) is the culprit? Kind regards, Hans Gaius Mulley <gaiusm...@gmail.com> wrote: > hbezemer--- via <groff@gnu.org> writes: > > > Dear all, > > > > I'm trying to create a html file with some graphics created by pic. > > Maybe I'm missing the obvious but I'm not able to get it to work. > > The following command: > > echo ".PS\nbox\n.PE" | pic | groff -Thtml -U > > > > results in: > > <!-- Creator : groff version 1.23.0 --> > > <!-- CreationDate: Wed Nov 29 06:35:31 2023 --> > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > > <html> > > <head> > > <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> > > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> > > <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> > > <style type="text/css"> > > p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > > pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > > table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > > h1 { text-align: center } > > </style> > > <title></title> > > </head> > > <body> > > > > <hr> > > <hr> > > </body> > > </html> > > > > I like to get some advice on what I can do better. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Hans > > Hi Hans, > > place the input into a filename and invoke groff using -p and -ms > (rather than use pic in a pipeline). The reason is that groff parses > the input file twice (once to generate html and once to generate the > images via ps). > > So: > > $ cat foo.n > .PS > box > .PE > $ groff -p -ms -Thtml foo.n > <!-- Creator : groff version 1.22.4 --> > <!-- CreationDate: Wed Nov 29 14:05:19 2023 --> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";> > <html> > <head> > <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org"> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> > <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css"> > <style type="text/css"> > p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top } > h1 { text-align: center } > </style> > <title></title> > </head> > <body> > > <hr> > > > > <p align="center" style="margin-top: 1em"><img src="grohtml-1446821.png" > alt="Image grohtml-1446821.png"></p> > <hr> > </body> > </html> > > regards, > Gaius
