From: Jeff Sickel <jas@corpus-callosum.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] where to get color troff?
Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 09:56:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EEBB36E3-D14B-4D47-A938-8AEB31857A97@corpus-callosum.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin=SPSMDyYtzda12y4Msv4q5F9OKQ@mail.gmail.com>
On May 16, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Russ Cox wrote:
>> They work great for troff, now I just need to investigate applying the same technique to grap.
>
> You can do it in pic (and I think grap) by just emitting some text
> before drawing something. In fact you can do arbitrary postscript
> code. This snippet uses the Pr string to push the current color
> on the stack and then switch to gray. The Pb string restores the
> previous color from the stack.
Thanks, that made me look back at the docks (and Sape's original
post) and remember that the emitted text needs to be
.at the beginning of the line.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-16 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-12 6:09 Fernan Bolando
2011-04-12 6:38 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-04-12 7:16 ` Fernan Bolando
2011-04-12 7:33 ` Sape Mullender
2011-04-12 8:24 ` Fernan Bolando
2011-04-12 12:31 ` pmarin
2011-05-14 0:43 ` Jeff Sickel
2011-05-16 13:36 ` Russ Cox
2011-05-16 14:56 ` Jeff Sickel [this message]
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