From: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO [ really pic ]
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 11:04:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202208101804.27AI4VkB1221117@darkstar.fourwinds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220810180210.GZ21168@mcvoy.com>
Larry McVoy writes:
> Jon gets it, I'm not the only one. I do the same thing with a big
> invisble box, it gives you a mental place to place things.
>
> Also agree with the "box that fits this text" problem, pic really could
> use a sizeof("this text in the current font/point size/line spacing")
> that returns x,y. But I don't see how to do that because pic doesn't
> have that info, pic would need to be able to ask troff what those are.
>
> Oh, and I've written my own crappy version of grap(1) that spits out
> pic, it was pretty easy.
>
> So at least Jon sees pic like I do and I suspect there are plenty more
> who do as well. Spend some time writing some pic scripts and I suspect
> anyone can get good at seeing what it is doing. It's a super pleasant
> little language.
Stop being so agreeable, go fishing or something :-)
Might have mentioned this before, but I have a toolchain for converting
pic to SVG as that's the only vector format that can be included in word
documents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-10 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 22:18 [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO Douglas McIlroy
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:44 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO [ really pic ] Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 18:04 ` Jon Steinhart [this message]
2022-08-10 18:13 ` [TUHS] Re: pic Michael Kjörling
2022-08-10 18:19 ` Dennis Boone
2022-08-10 18:24 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-11 0:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-11 12:13 ` arnold
2022-08-11 14:34 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-12 1:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-12 6:46 ` arnold
2022-08-12 20:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-11 7:37 ` [TUHS] Re: pic's One-way Information Flow. (Was: SNOBOL and RATSNO) Ralph Corderoy
2022-08-10 18:24 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO joe mcguckin
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