Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and '' > as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones. > In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset > particularly well -- they are too compressed. > > So a more complete

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread Russ Cox
It might also be worth pointing out that troff does just fine with `` and '' as curly quotes, so there's not a lot of need to use the Unicode ones. In fact, in the default fonts I find that the Unicode ones don't typeset particularly well -- they are too compressed. So a more complete solution is

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread cej
2) Some suggestions to pic: a rounded rectangle (groff has an arc attribute), lines to connect the ends of an arc to its effective center (useful for making pie charts), a fill color attribute. Any objections? Would love to see it implemented. Please, consider also PS fill pattern. Cross f

Re: [9fans] deroff, pic

2008-10-23 Thread erik quanstrom
> 1) Should deroff -w interpret curly quotes (“”)? Right now it doesn't, > so spell is treating any words with either character as spelling errors. ; 9diff deroff.c /n/sources/plan9//sys/src/cmd/deroff.c:963,968 - deroff.c:963,970 return chars[c]; switch(c){ case