On 6/11/23, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> Pic accepts any modifier attached to any command that admits
> some modifier, and simply ignores those that don't make sense.
This seems in line with the general permissiveness of (g)roff itself
ignoring extraneous parameters to requests.
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Forwarding another mail of Doug's that I think was sent to TUHS by
mistake.
At 2023-06-13T21:58:51-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> There may be a simple generic way to correct pic's habit of accepting
> any set of object modifiers on any object, but obeying only a
> compatible subset.
>
> Pic alre
[self-follow-up]
At 2023-06-12T05:25:25-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Anyway, the rest of the idea is that, once the various pic objects are
> organized into this class hierarchy (if you squint at it), then rules
> can be introduced so that an `object_spec` that isn't a `round_object`
> gets
Hi Doug,
At 2023-06-11T19:59:46-0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> The fact that you can't apply "fill" to a polygon drawn with pic's
> "line" command is a minor symptom of a general phenomenon. Pic accepts
> any modifier attached to any command that admits some modifier, and
> simply ignores those th
The fact that you can't apply "fill" to a polygon drawn with pic's
"line" command is a minor symptom of a general phenomenon. Pic accepts
any modifier attached to any command that admits some modifier, and
simply ignores those that don't make sense. A couple of examples:
box rad 1
b
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 rely on the old testament book of Ossanna and on
> groff(7), neither of which cover tha
> I understand that groff has the \D escape which
> allows you, among other things, to draw outline
> and filled polygons.
Very helpful. I rely on the old testament book of
Ossanna and on groff(7), neither of which cover
that option for \D. One must look in "info groff". I
hope Branden's extensive
Hi Doug,
I understand that groff has the \D escape which allows you, among other
things, to draw outline and filled polygons.
A polygon:
'\D'p DX1 DY1 DX2 DY2 ...''
From the texinfo groff manual:
Draw a polygon from the current location to the relative
position (DX1,DY1)
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
A super-duper fix would support filling of closed curves made of lines,
splines and arcs.
Can groff (or troff) do this with low level commands?
Thanks - Damian
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