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Article #507Re: Pic advice (almost a bug)
From: Jim Webb
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1986 21:51
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1986 21:51
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> Here is my latest pic discovery. Although this is not a bug > report per se, the following advice may prove very helpful if you > want your pic-tures to come out right. > > In an apparent attempt to make pic > usable with the old troff, pic draws short lines using the new > line drawing commands, and draws longer lines using repeated base line > rule characters. > > If you get boxes and lines that don't quite match up, > look to the pltroff.c file for the answer. Tho this isn't a bug, > these printer dependencies could be handled more gracefully. > Or, you could use the -D option on pic, which says to use all \D requests instead of multiple rules... -- Jim Webb ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hropus.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb) Newsgroups: net.bugs Subject: Re: Pic advice (almost a bug) Message-ID: <364@hropus.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Mar-86 16:51:34 EST Article-I.D.: hropus.364 Posted: Wed Mar 19 16:51:34 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Mar-86 05:56:49 EST References: <479@rna.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 18