Dear Everyone,
Thank you very much for diagnosing my problem and solving it! I had
spent several hours trying to figure out what was going wrong. Now I
see in the pic manual that "command" outputs a *line*, which of course
has an end of line character, causing the shift down the page, as has
Hi Russ,
> I already found documented I can't see how \c is any kind of a
> solution where the grops man page that's effectively being called by
> the X command states:
This isn't specific to grops or the use of `ps:' in the `\X' escape.
$ cat ralph.tr
.PS
command "foo bar"
linet
Hi Ralph,
Thanks for that input, but as I already found documented I can't see
how \c is any kind of a solution where the grops man page that's
effectively being called by the X command states:
"grops man page where it
states:
" \X'ps: exec code'
This executes the arbitrary
Hi Jen,
> I have boiled down my problem to the following short example:
Thanks.
$ cat jen.tr
.PS
#command "\X'ps: exec 0 setlinecap'"
linethick = 2
line right 1
move right 0.5
#command "\X'ps: exec 1 setlinecap'"
line right 2
.PE
$
> The tail of the Post
Hello! I am trying to use a feature of groff that I haven't used
before, and I'm running into a bit of trouble.
I have a gpic drawing where I want to have some lines with round endcaps
and some with square ones. (So, it's not a matter of using the BP
feature to set the endcap style for the w
