From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:54:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17489F62-5E24-476A-8370-ABB21F511C24@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080427164602.4D4131E8C22@holo.morphisms.net>
/n/sources/contrib/pietro/saturn.tar has an example of what I mean.
troff -ms -mpictures tmac.colors saturnhd.ms history.ms
On Apr 27, 2008, at 12:43 PM, Russ Cox wrote:
>> Hello. I decided to take advantage of mpicture's wrapping text.
>> However, when I do so, the text before the picture and the wrapped
>> text disappears, leaving space. I tried prefixing with .fl to flush
>> everything, but to no avail. What's going on?
>
> "I did something and it doesn't work. Why?"
> is far less useful than a detailed concrete example.
> For example, narrow the broken file down to
> ten lines or so of troff and a small EPS file
> and then post that.
>
> My first guess would be that your EPS file is
> non-conforming and is covering all the
> text that came before it, even outside the
> bounding box. But it's hard to say anything
> without details.
>
> Russ
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-27 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-26 22:34 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-27 16:43 ` Russ Cox
2008-04-27 20:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi [this message]
2008-04-28 8:32 ` Russ Cox
2008-04-28 10:14 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-04-30 18:29 ` Russ Cox
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