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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:54:43 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mpictures and ms: text before is gone
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/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
>
>