🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <139@cs.qmc.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
> You don't need a pre-processor to turn
>         .BM xsize ysize
> into    .fl
>	etc
No, but you should not need to know the size of the bitmap.  This is
the whole point of the pre-processor.

Anyhow, I have done some research and found that the transparent mode
command leaves a bit to be desired.  Try:
	bit ... | troff -ms | ...
		.KS
		.BM filename
		.KE
and your bitmap commands come out as text, via a diversion.

It turns out that there has been a command added to DItroff to do
this sort of thing:
	.cf filename
which copies the contents of the named file directly to the output,
after it adds some nice positioning commands.  True, I have to mess
with nasty tmp files for my pre-processor to talk to the print driver,
but it works.

I can't post the sources to this to the net, since it contains
V8 code, to take the bitmaps.  But maybe if there is any demand,
I could post a censored version.


Neil Russell
..!seismo!munnari!basser.oz!caret		(tictoc is not ticking)