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gpic and text

#15
From: James Clark
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 15:18
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   I have been having great difficulty using the compass
   points associated with gpic objects (version 1.05 though I
   had the same problems with 1.03).

   I would have thought that the following input would draw
   "foo" inside the box rather than to the left of it.

	   .PS
	   scale = 25.4
	   T: "foo" width 5 height 3
	   box from T.ne to T.sw
	   .PE

gpic, like Unix pic, silently ignores irrelevant attributes (perhaps
this should be changed).  The `from' and `to' attributes are ignored
for the `box' primitive.

   And why does the following draw a right angle rather than a 'T' ?

	   .PS
	   line down
	   line right with .c at last line.n
	   .PE

The `with' attribute is ignored for the `line' primitive.

   PS.  I am using a Sun Sparc running SunOS 4.1.2 and compiled groff
   with Sun's CC 2.1.  This required changing three files because
   of complaints about type mismatches.  Here are the diffs:

This is discussed in the PROBLEMS file.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com
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