At 2025-06-18T00:09:11+0100, Deri wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 June 2025 23:27:59 BST Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > >> PDFPIC is a horror. > > > > > > 😅 I tried to make it less horrific for 1.24. Deri's made it > > > more powerful, as well. > > > > Overpowerful, I'd say. It's the only tmac file that uses .sy. > > It flies in the face of the wisdom of default safe mode. > > Not sure I deserve the credit!
Yeah, it came in that way, ten years ago. https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/commit/?id=9d885c6b342f71594af5d45f37ce65c121641e25 ...with unrelated changes. :-| > If you don't want to use unsafe mode you can use the \X'pdf: pdfpic > ...' command, the only hassle is that you have to follow it with an an > appropriate ".sp" to move down beyond the 'pic'. Quoting this because this pair of equivalent alternatives are worth keeping in mind, and maybe documenting, either in gropdf(1), groff_tmac(5), or a future groff_pdfpic(7) man page. Regards, Branden
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