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+'\" e
+.ig \"-*- nroff -*-
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+.\" This man page must be preprocessed with eqn.
+.ie \n(.g .ds ic \/
+.el .ds ic \^
+.TH GROFF_OUT @MAN5EXT@ "@MDATE@" "Groff Version @VERSION@"
+.SH NAME
+groff_out \- groff intermediate output format
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page describes the format output by GNU troff.
+The output format used by GNU troff is very similar to that used
+by Unix device-independent troff. Only the differences are documented
+here.
+.LP
+The argument to the
+.B s
+command is in scaled points (units of
+.IR points/ n ,
+where
+.I n
+is the argument to the
+.B sizescale
+command  in the DESC file.)
+The argument to the
+.B x\ Height
+command is also in scaled points.
+.LP
+The first three output commands are guaranteed to be:
+.IP
+.BI x\ T\  device
+.br
+.BI x\ res\  n\ h\ v
+.br
+.B x init
+.LP
+If the
+.B tcommand
+line is present in the DESC file, troff will use the following
+two commands
+.TP
+.BI t xxx
+.I xxx
+is any sequence of characters terminated by a space or a newline;
+the first character should be printed at the current position,
+the the current horizontal position should be increased by
+the width of the first character, and so on for each character.
+The width of the character is that given in the font file,
+appropriately scaled for the current point size, and rounded
+so that it is a multiple of the horizontal resolution.
+Special characters cannot be printed using this command.
+.TP
+.BI u n\ xxx
+This is same as the
+.B t
+command except that after printing each character, the current horizontal
+position is increased by the sum of the width of that character
+and
+.IR n .
+.LP
+Note that single characters can have the eighth bit set, as can the
+names of fonts and special characters.
+.LP
+The names of characters and fonts can be of arbitrary length; drivers
+should not assume that they will be only two characters long.
+.LP
+When a character is to be printed, that character will always be
+in the current font.
+Unlike device-independent troff, it is not necessary
+for drivers to search special fonts to find a character.
+.LP
+The
+.B D
+drawing command has been extended.
+These extensions will not be used by GNU pic if the
+.B \-n
+option is given.
+.TP
+\fBDf \fIn\fR\*(ic\en
+Set the shade of gray to be used for filling solid objects to
+.IR n ;
+.I n
+must be an integer between 0 and 1000, where 0 corresponds solid white
+and 1000 to solid black, and values in between correspond to
+intermediate shades of gray.
+This applies only to solid circles, solid ellipses and solid
+polygons.
+By default, a level of 1000 will be used.
+Whatever color a solid object has, it should completely obscure
+everything beneath it.
+A value greater than 1000 or less than 0 can also be used:
+this means fill with the shade of gray that is currently being used
+for lines and text.
+Normally this will be black, but some drivers may provide
+a way of changing this.
+.TP
+\fBDC \fId\fR\*(ic\en
+Draw a solid circle with a diameter of
+.I d
+with the leftmost point at the current position.
+.TP
+\fBDE \fIdx dy\fR\*(ic\en
+Draw a solid ellipse with a horizontal diameter of
+.I dx
+and a vertical diameter of
+.I dy
+with the leftmost point at the current position.
+.EQ
+delim $$
+.EN
+.TP
+\fBDp\fR $dx sub 1$ $dy sub 1$ $dx sub 2$ $dy sub 2$ $...$ $dx sub n$ $dy sub n$\en
+Draw a polygon with,
+for $i = 1 ,..., n+1$, the
+.IR i -th
+vertex at the current position 
+$+ sum from j=1 to i-1 ( dx sub j , dy sub j )$.
+At the moment,
+GNU pic only uses this command to generate triangles and rectangles.
+.TP
+\fBDP\fR $dx sub 1$ $dy sub 1$ $dx sub 2$ $dy sub 2$ $...$ $dx sub n$ $dy sub n$\en
+Like
+.B Dp
+but draw a solid rather than outlined polygon.
+.TP
+\fBDt \fIn\fR\*(ic\en
+Set the current line thickness to
+.I n
+machine units.
+Traditionally Unix troff drivers use a line thickness proportional to the current
+point size; drivers should continue to do this if no
+.B Dt
+command has been given, or if a
+.B Dt
+command has been given with a negative value of
+.IR n .
+A zero value of
+.I n
+selects the smallest available line thickness.
+.LP
+A difficulty arises in how the current position should be changed after
+the execution of these commands.
+This is not of great importance since the code generated by GNU pic
+does not depend on this.
+Given a drawing command of the form
+.IP
+\fB\eD\(fm\fIc\fR $x sub 1$ $y sub 1$ $x sub 2$ $y sub 2$ $...$ $x sub n$ $y sub n$\(fm
+.LP
+where
+.I c
+is not one of
+.BR c ,
+.BR e ,
+.BR l ,
+.B a
+or
+.BR ~ ,
+Unix troff will treat each of the $x sub i$ as a horizontal quantity,
+and each of the $y sub i$ as a vertical quantity and will assume that
+the width of the drawn object is $sum from i=1 to n x sub i$,
+and that the height is $sum from i=1 to n y sub i$.
+(The assumption about the height can be seen by examining the
+.B st
+and
+.B sb
+registers after using such a
+.B D
+command in a \ew escape sequence.)
+This rule also holds for all the original drawing commands
+with the exception of
+.BR De .
+For the sake of compatibility GNU troff also follows this rule,
+even though it produces an ugly result in the case of the
+.BR Df ,
+.BR Dt ,
+and, to a lesser extent,
+.B DE
+commands.
+Thus after executing a
+.B D
+command of the form
+.IP
+\fBD\fIc\fR $x sub 1$ $y sub 1$ $x sub 2$ $y sub 2$ $...$ $x sub n$ $y sub n$\en
+.LP
+the current position should be increased by
+$( sum from i=1 to n x sub i , sum from i=1 to n y sub i )$.
+.LP
+There is a continuation convention which permits the argument to the
+.B x\ X
+command to contain newlines:
+when outputting the argument to the
+.B x\ X
+command, GNU troff
+will follow each newline in the argument with a
+.B +
+character
+(as usual, it will terminate the entire argument with a newline);
+thus if the line after the line containing the
+.B x\ X
+command starts with
+.BR + ,
+then the newline ending the line containing the
+.B x\ X
+command should be treated as part of the argument to the
+.B x\ X
+command,
+the
+.B +
+should be ignored,
+and the part of the line following the
+.B +
+should be treated like the part of the line following the
+.B x\ X
+command.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR groff_font (@MAN5EXT@)