[See in-line below] On 24-Oct-2012 19:41:53 Denis M. Wilson wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:00:10 -0400 > "James K. Lowden" <jklow...@schemamania.org> wrote: > >> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00007.html >> http://www.schemamania.org/sailing/bh/ >> >> In looking for a way to rotate pic figures, I found Ted Harding's >> message, which offers a nifty trick. But it seems it doesn't quite >> work if the figure to be rotated is a block containing a macro call. >> >> Could someone tell me, please, why in the file bh.ms the quotation >> marks in the Boat macro aren't rotated along with everything else? Am >> I using the macro or block feature incorrectly, or does "rotate" need >> to be modified to handle this case? >> >> A matter of escapement? > > The simple answer seems to be the extra " characters at the end of > your .ds statements. > > Denis
Yes, in my first posting on the subject to which James Lowden refers: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00007.html (which was sent at the "alpha" stage of the technique) I had indeed put an extra " character at the end of each .ds statement. These are not necessary (end-of-line is enough) and can indeed cause trouble! If you go to the "next-in-thread" for that posting: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00008.html you will see them without terminating " characters: ds rotate "\X'ps: exec gsave currentpoint 2 copy translate \ \\$1 rotate neg exch neg exch translate' .ds restore "\X'ps: exec grestore' I think the first version (with ") was an oversight! Best wishes to all, Ted. >> Many thanks. >> >> --jkl >> > > > -- > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > ------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Date: 24-Oct-2012 Time: 21:13:49 This message was sent by XFMail -------------------------------------------------
