Re: [Groff] oddity in pic : absolute positioning requires "move" first.

2012-08-07 Thread emmanuel chemla
Indeed Ralph, I wanted to do a kind of two columns layout that tab would have solved. but at the time of posting, I entered into a non-practical state of mind which is "trying to cope with the irrational" !!! And Ted's insight brought some relief in providing a grasp of the thing. Btw, I believe th

[Groff] oddity in pic : absolute positioning requires "move" first.

2012-08-07 Thread emmanuel chemla
Hello to all, I have a small quizz asking to define a task priority. The user can answer using one of the four options. I want those options to have a small ident of 0.8 i. So here's the code : \f[BMB]\s11Task priority : \s0\fP .sp 0.05i .char \[radiobutton] \f(ZD\N'109' .PS "\f[BMR]\s11 \[radio

[Groff] looping in Pic

2012-03-15 Thread emmanuel chemla
A newbie question in Pic: Having to draw a ruled paper, I finally succeeded in writing this short program : .PS lineWidth=3i interlineHeight=0.2 line lineWidth; line lineWidth at last line.start +(0i, -interlineHeight) line lineWidth at last line.start +(0i, -interlineHeight) line lineWidth a