Re: groff Digest, Vol 239, Issue 2

2024-09-04 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> Unfortunately pic chops broken lines into separate segments, > so it can't directly fill general polygons. But then again, the nice thing about pic doing this is that its dashed lines always begin and end with a stroked segment. Many programs don't get this right. And the nice thing about usi

Re: groff Digest, Vol 239, Issue 2

2024-09-03 Thread Douglas McIlroy
This topic scratches an old itch: it's a shame that pic does not exploit \D for filling polygons. I have filled an axIs-oriented right triangle in pic by making a filled box and deleting one corner of the resulting \D. Other polygons can be filled by breaking them up into axis-oriented right triang