While I don't have any suggestions as how to fix this, I did try it with
Heirloom troff, and it seems to have the same unwanted non-centering result
as groff.
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 3:52 PM Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote:
> hello groffers,
>
> I wrote the following code to illustrate the DOD model encapsulation.
>
> sadly: the label of the layers are not centred. it seems to be relative
> to the fact i use a function as it works fine when i replace
> label_for(layer) by a simple string
>
> like
>
> box width w height margin \
> with .nw at last box .nw dashed \
> "" label_for(layer) ""
>
> by
>
> box width w height margin \
> with .nw at last box .nw dashed \
> "" "eat the road, jack" ""
>
> I can do something more manual but i really would like to take advantage
> of the expressivity of pic. Any other comment is also warmly welcome.
>
> regards,
> marc
>
> # compiled with
> # scan.ps: scan.ms ${deps} ; groff -skp -ms -mfr $< > $@
>
> .PS
>
> define label_for {
> if $1 == 0 then { "Entête Ethernet" } else {
> if $1 == 1 then { "Entête IP" } else {
> if $1 == 2 then { "Entête TCP" } else {
> if $1 == 3 then { "Donnees applicatives" } else {
> } } } }
> }
>
> w = 3 ; h = 2; margin = .2 ; tr = 2 * margin
> for layer = 0 to 3 do {
> s = layer * margin
> box width w height h with .sw at (s,s)
> box width w height margin with .nw at last box .nw dashed ""
> label_for(layer) ""
> w = w - tr
> h = h - tr
> }
> .PE
>
>
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T. Kurt Bond, tkurtb...@gmail.com, https://tkurtbond.github.io
