Thanks very much, everyone! I'll give that a go. Robert Goulding Sent from my phone
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 7:18 PM Deri <d...@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Friday, 24 June 2022 16:35:55 BST Robert Goulding wrote: > > I am trying to draw a huge diagram with pic - a chart with lots of boxes > > and arrows, and pic is a good tool for it. How do I get beyond the > > constraints of the paper size? I want to be able to keep extending the > > chart vertically and horizontally to an arbitrary extent. As it is, I > have > > already run out of space, and new boxes do not appear on the chart (or > > appear in the wrong place). > > > > R. > > This seems to work:- > > .sp 2i > .PS 18i 5i > for j=1 to 18 do > ! > ellipse "Deri"; > arrow; > ! > .PE > > And run it with this:- > > groff -Tpdf -p -P-p5i,20i pic.trf > pic.pdf > > The two numbers after .PS are wildth and height, and after -P-p are length > and > width of the papersize. > > If I run pic on its own against the pic.trf file, the .PS line is changed > to:- > > .PS 0.400i 18.000i 18i 5i > > I think the first two numbers are now the actual dimensions of the picture > created. I hope this helps. > > Cheers > > Deri > > > >
