Re: groff Digest, Vol 239, Issue 2

2024-09-03 Thread Douglas McIlroy
ing, failing an > assertion, or going computationally asymptotic as it struggles with > interiority like a character from a Bergman film. > > If someone would test GNU troff's boundaries so that I can document what > those boundaries are, I'd appreciate it. > > Same if you can disabuse

Re: a boundary-pushing challenge for drawing commands

2024-09-03 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> How does the formatter know which parts to fill? In the case of groff (I can't say anything about the original troff), I don't think the formatter actually knows or cares, but simply passes the path on to the device postprocessor, which just incorporates it into the device-dependent output, to

a boundary-pushing challenge for drawing commands

2024-09-03 Thread G. Branden Robinson
I was reading groff_diff(7)'s short and simple description of the GNU troff drawing command extension, `\D'P'`. \D'P h1 v1 ... hn vn' As \D'p', but the polygon is filled. Instantly (or not, given that I must have read this sentence dozens of times before without finding it