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-rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | src/devices/grops/grops.man | 27 |
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ * doc/groff.texinfo: More documentation on end-of-macro symbol of `.de'. - Minor addition ot `.di' description. + Minor addition to `.di' description. + + * src/devices/grops/grops.man: Some clarifications regarding + insertion of PostScript snippets. 2006-03-25 Michail Vidiassov <master@iaas.msu.ru> diff --git a/src/devices/grops/grops.man b/src/devices/grops/grops.man index 55f643c0..9eba7ec2 100644 --- a/src/devices/grops/grops.man +++ b/src/devices/grops/grops.man @@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ for the PS Symbol font, and containing slanted lowercase Greek letters taken from PS Symbol. . Zapf Dingbats is available as -.BR ZD +.BR ZD , and a reversed version of ZapfDingbats (with symbols pointing in the opposite direction) is available as .BR ZDR ; @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ The default color for .B \[rs]m and .B \[rs]M -is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space, +is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space .B setrgbcolor is used, for `cmy' and `cmyk' .BR setcmykcolor , @@ -596,7 +596,8 @@ and y\~coordinates increase down the page. A procedure\~\c .B u is defined that converts groff units -to the coordinate system in effect. +to the coordinate system in effect (provided the user doesn't change the +scale). . For example, . @@ -653,6 +654,26 @@ For example, . .LP is another way to draw a horizontal line one inch long. +. +Note the single backslash before `nx' \[en] the only reason to use a number +register while defining the macro `y' is to convert a user-specified +dimension `1i' to internal groff units which are in turn converted to PS +units with the +.B u +procedure. +. +.LP +.B grops +wraps user-specified PostScript code into a dictionary, nothing more. +. +In particular, it doesn't start and end the inserted code with +.B save +and +.BR restore , +respectively. +. +This must be supplied by the user, if necessary. +. .RE . .TP |