[Groff] picture placing

2005-11-14 Thread walter harms
Hi list, is there an easy way to place a picture ? The design (a4 long): two on top of each other with 4 and 3 columns. The "empty" column should be filled with a piucture. i tried with .PSPIC and \X:import but causing havoc the to page onlY basicly it should look like this. 2 tables and X mar

RE: [Groff] picture placing

2005-11-14 Thread Ted Harding
On 14-Nov-05 walter harms wrote: > Hi list, > is there an easy way to place a picture ? > > The design (a4 long): > two on top of each other with 4 and 3 columns. The "empty" column > should > be filled with a piucture. i tried with .PSPIC and \X:import > but causing havoc the to page onlY > > b

Re: [Groff] Macro arguments question

2005-11-14 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
> > But this is a consequence of wrapping it in \{...\}, so if > > you just remove the quotes from your argument it comes out > > right. No, this interpretation appears to be incorrect. The \{...\} is at best ineffective here. You can see this if you define the macro as follows: .de temp # arg

Re: [Groff] Macro arguments question

2005-11-14 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
Just wanted to clarify a few things about environments. The idea of environments is to define several different "parameter sets" for formatting, with the purpose of being able to easily switch between them (e.g., one environment for the normal body text, one for footnotes, etc.), and to be able t

Re: [Groff] picture placing

2005-11-14 Thread walter harms
hi list, hi Ted, finally i got the macro working can you please check my changes ? i got the idea from the grops man-page. .ds mypic \Z'\v'-0.5c'\h'22.5c'\X'ps: import abibild.eps 204 276 404 516 175000'' please note the \v \h . i used them to place the picture. Then import name is abibild.e

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Re: [Groff] Macro arguments question

2005-11-14 Thread Tadziu Hoffmann
Ah, and I forgot to emphasize that one of the most important aspects of environments is that the current "partially collected line" is part of the environment. Using environments, you can collect and format several different "threads" in parallel. __

[Groff] getopt issues building 1.19.2

2005-11-14 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Hi, There were some issues with getopt.h on, for example, Tru64. On that platform, stdio.h #include's getopt.h, so the __GETOPT_PREFIX was not set when groff's getopt.h was included, leading to linker errors. The solution is simply to move the __GETOPT_PREFIX #define to before all the #include sta