On 2010-08-20 13:00 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > I'd like to include a simple diagram in a man page,
>
> IIRC, some of the Sun OS man pages from the 80s used to have the odd
> diagram. It may be worth a grep through collections of man pages to see
> if you can find some that use tbl, or pic,
On 2010-08-20 13:55 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> >>> `Must not depend on groff'? What does this mean?
> >>
> >> Simply that it must work with any nroff & troff, not just Groff.
>
> Then pic is not a general solution since, AFAIK, only groff pic
> produces TTY output.
OK, so pic is out (and so
On 2010-08-20 11:09 +0200, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > > I'd like to include a simple diagram in a man page,
>
> Runing "man -p p ./testfile" on this file:
>
> .TH a b c d e
> .PS
> box "X"
> arrow "A" ""
> box "Y"
> arrow "B" ""
> box "Z"
> .PE
>
> results in this output, which is better than
On 2010-08-20 09:37 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > I'd like to include a simple diagram in a man page, something
> > like this :
> >
> > _ __
> > | | A | | C | |
> > | X |>| Y |->| Z |
> >
I'd like to include a simple diagram in a man page, something
like this :
_ __
| | A | | C | |
| X |>| Y |->| Z |
| |<| |<-| |
|_| B |
On 2007-12-14 12:25 -0500, Michael Kerpan wrote:
> ...that groff/troff seems to be written off by so many as "obsolete"
> and "only useful for man pages", despite the fact that it can do
> everything that TeX/LaTeX (seemingly the favored non-WYSIWYG document
> processor) can do but while taking up
