Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-06 Thread Deri
On Tuesday, 6 June 2023 21:07:07 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote: > \D'a hc hv h v' > Draw circular arc centered at (hc, vc) from the drawing position > to (h, v). Hi Branden, I'm not sure if this is relevent but have you seen the comment in the routine adjust_arc_center (geom

Re: drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-06 Thread Douglas McIlroy
Branden Your \D description looks good, except perhaps for the word "solid", which I suppose was to avoid overloading "fill". But "fill" is baked into pic, from which I suspect the vast majority of \Ds originate. It's also PostScript terminology. I wrote the raster ellipse-drawing program for pla

drawing commands in groff(7) (was: undiagnosed pic error)

2023-06-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[self-follow-up] At 2023-06-05T20:57:37-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Hi Doug, > > At 2023-06-05T19:48:50-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote: > > > I understand that groff has the \D escape which allows you, among > > > other things, to draw outline and filled polygons. > > > > Very helpful. I rel