At 2024-11-24T02:52:01+0000, Duncan Losin via GNU roff typesetting system discussion wrote: > > A worthy objective, but it should not be released without user > > documentation. Where can one see that? > > You can find the documentation included with the patch I submitted to > this list on 2024-09-30. Here is the archive link: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2024-09/msg00085.html
I've merged this change and pushed it. https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?66458 Also I added an automated test for the functionality, GNU pic's first. Before releasing groff 1.24.0.rc1, I'd like to propose renaming the new `.p[oint]`...uh..."locator"(?)[1] to `.m[idpoint]`, which seems more communicative and is familiar from (English translations of) Euclid's geometry. `.m` is not already taken. What do people think? Regards, Branden [1] CSTR #116 doesn't seem to have a general name for these dotted suffixes, or at least not one I'm crazy about. Kernighan does call them "corners" (and "compass points") (ยง5), but these terms seem to me to apply poorly to ".c[enter]", to arcs, and obviously enough to midpoints of straight lines. So I'd also like feedback on a good name for this category of points. I briefly considered the term "control points" but rejected it; I associate it with splines, and moreover these points are not used to "control" the drawing of pic's geometric objects in general. N.B. I still am not au fait with pic, so my ignorance could be howling loudly here.
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