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2 total messages Started by Kris A. Kugel Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:47

#3075

Author: Kris A. Kugel
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:47

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There's a set of troff macros that turn a "typewriter drawing" into
lines called "gc".
As I recall, it handles curves through the use of adjacent '(' or '@'
characters.  I think they work only for certain Xerox printers.

	.GS
		@@@
	       @   @
		@@@
	.GE

There's a filter version, called "gc2pic",
which generates "pic" output.  The version I used
did not handle any form of curves.

Given my lack of a working "xcip/cip" program
for generating pic output, gc2pic seems like
the easiest way of creating pic pictures fast.

Is there a newer version of gc2pic available that corrects
the curve problem?

Kris A. Kugel	908-842-2707
hico2!query	query@hico2.westmark.com

Re: info needed on gc2pic

#3082

Author: Kris A. Kugel
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 01:01

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I wrote:
: There's a set of troff macros that turn a "typewriter drawing" into
: lines called "gc".
: As I recall, it handles curves through the use of adjacent '(' or '@'
: characters.  I think they work only for certain Xerox printers.

: 	.GS
: 		@@@
: 	       @   @
: 		@@@
: 	.GE

: There's a filter version, called "gc2pic",
: which generates "pic" output.  The version I used
: did not handle any form of curves.

: Given my lack of a working "xcip/cip" program
: for generating pic output, gc2pic seems like
: the easiest way of creating pic pictures fast.

: Is there a newer version of gc2pic available that corrects
: the curve problem?

Thanks to a friend with an actual manual page,
I find that the curve-handling invocation is

	gc2pic +s

Evidently, splines are an option because some
output devices can't handle them.

I ended up not being able to use gc2pic, because of its
tendency to plot text positions exactly as in its input....

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