[Groff] Polygons in pic

2006-07-13 Thread Bill Ward
The discussion of linecaps for lines in polygons reminded me of something on my wish list: Since there is this powerful capability to draw (filled) polygons, how difficult would it be to make this capability available in pic? E.g., Mypoly: polygon from (1,1) to (3,1) to (3,3) to (2,4) to (1,3)

Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
On 13-Jul-06 Werner LEMBERG wrote: > [about the contents of www.gnu.org] > >> I feel this should be changed! > > Please go forth and submit changes to the website maintainers! > > Werner OK, will do! Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Har

Re: [Groff] Rules drawn with \D are rounded

2006-07-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
> Yes. There are raw PostScript commands, 'setlinejoin', 'setlinecap' > and 'setmiterlimit' relevant to it (info quoted from the PostScript > Language Reference Manual or "Red Book"): [...good explanation > omitted...] Ted, can you transform your explanation into a patch for grops.man? Be careful

Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Peter Schaffter
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006, Ted Harding wrote: > and there is groff -- described as "Document formatting system". > There also is LaTeX -- described as "Typesetting system". > > I feel groff is a bit slighted by this, since it is as much > a typesetting system as LaTeX is! I suspect that the groff > des

Re: [Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Werner LEMBERG
[about the contents of www.gnu.org] > I feel this should be changed! Please go forth and submit changes to the website maintainers! Werner ___ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff

[Groff] groff on GNU

2006-07-13 Thread Ted Harding
Hi Folks, Visiting http://www.gnu.org for a quite separate purpose, I started to browse in the FSF "software directory": http://directory.fsf.org/ and began to wonder where to look for groff. The list of categories is not particularly helpful, but I explored by burrowing down through Text