[Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, Ijust started learning to use pic but there's something I didn't find in the tutorials I've found (and it looks like the section of the Groff manual on pic is empty). I'd like to draw a number of boxes in "cascading" style, like this: .PS A:box wid 0.7i ht 1i B:box wid 0.7i ht 1i at (A.e.

[Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
Hello, Ijust started learning to use pic but there's something I didn't find in the tutorials I've found (and it looks like the section of the manual on pic is empty). I'd like to draw a number of boxes in "cascading" style, like this: .PS A:box wid 0.7i ht 1i B:box wid 0.7i ht 1i at (A.e.x-0.1i

RE: [Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Ted Harding
On 17-Apr-10 19:09:49, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > Hello, > > Ijust started learning to use pic but there's something I didn't > find in the tutorials I've found (and it looks like the section > of the Groff manual on pic is empty). > > I'd like to draw a number of boxes in "cascading" style, li

Re: [Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:04:17PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Yes, you can -- use 'shaded "white"' as in: > (...) > > So, to answer your description (if I have understood correctly, > i.e. A is the top one and should overlay B which should overlay C) > you would need to change the signs of the rel

Re: [Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Is there a complete reference for pic somewhere? The most extensive > text on pic I found so far is a chapter of "Unix Text Processing" by > Dougherty and O'Reilly, but it doesn't seem to be extensive. groff itself is distributed with the reference! Search for `pic.ms' (source) and `pic.ps' or

Re: [Groff] Cascading boxes with pic?

2010-04-17 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 06:36:50AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > Is there a complete reference for pic somewhere? The most extensive > > text on pic I found so far is a chapter of "Unix Text Processing" by > > Dougherty and O'Reilly, but it doesn't seem to be extensive. > > groff itself is d