Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-24 Thread George Katsitadze
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:35:30PM +1000, Miklos Somogyi wrote: > PS. Fellas, I haven't received a single post from this forum for a > very-very long time. > How do you manage? Do you check the archives all the time or your ISP > is not taking > SpamCop so seriously as mine? gmail works fine for

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
From: Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:40:22 +0200 (CEST) > > > > Well, I get everything it seems. > > > Then it seems that I need to search for another ISP, like yours, who > > can

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> > Well, I get everything it seems. > Then it seems that I need to search for another ISP, like yours, who > can bypass the nearly constant ban on lists.gnu.org. Yes, it seems so. Probably you find an ISP who is put himself on blacklists (like my 1&1 in Germany). I believe such companies are

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-23 Thread Miklos Somogyi
On 24/10/2006, at 8:46 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote: PS. Fellas, I haven't received a single post from this forum for a very-very long time. How do you manage? Do you check the archives all the time or your ISP is not taking SpamCop so seriously as mine? Well, I get everything it seems.

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-23 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> PS. Fellas, I haven't received a single post from this forum for a > very-very long time. How do you manage? Do you check the archives > all the time or your ISP is not taking SpamCop so seriously as mine? Well, I get everything it seems. Werner ___

[Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-23 Thread Miklos Somogyi
Ted, If you want to do 3d in groff, I think that PS is better suited for this than Pic. Here you can define an object in its own co-ordinate system, introduce modelling transformations to help in putting together complex objects from simple elements, and viewing transformations to rotate the

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ted, > I'm wondering of there is a general approach at all, within the world > of groff/PostScript. There's 3DLDF which takes a textual description of a 3D object and produces MetaPost output. http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/LDF.html There's also "G3 - A Language for Typesetting Three

Re: [Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-18 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Now you'll see that it gives a perspective picture of > a box with "Contents" on the top, "of" on the left-hand > side, and "the box" on the facing side. [...] > But it has occurred to me that it would have been much easier if it > were possible to > > a) First construct an object as if you w

[Groff] Perspective in Pic

2006-10-16 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, A little project I just completed prompts me to raise a question which may be worth discussing. Tha background is that I've been making an indexed catalogue of some 200+ papers (journal articles and similar documents) for a friend of mine. These were passed to me in a cardboard box. Us