tomsu@cromemco.UUCP (Tom Cumming) (05/03/90)
I have some "troff" documentation that needs to run through a "pic" pre-processor. What is pic, where does it hail from, and is it possible to get a copy somehow? Thanx, Tom C. uunet!pyramid!cromemco!tom
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (05/03/90)
In article <698@cromemco.UUCP> tomsu@cromemco.UUCP (Tom Cumming) writes: >I have some "troff" documentation that needs to run through a "pic" >pre-processor. What is pic, where does it hail from, and is it possible >to get a copy somehow? "pic" is one of a set of troff preprocessors that interpret "small languages" for specialized purposes, in this case for diagram drawing. Others include "eqn" for conveniently specifying mathematical equations, "tbl" for tables, and "grap" for convenient production of graphs. The typesetting instructions produced by these language processors may be imbedded within larger troff documents. All the processors I mentioned are available in AT&T's Documenter's WorkBench (DWB) software package, licensed by AT&T and offered under sublicensing arrangements by various software houses that specialize in computer typesetting, Elan and SoftQuad being two that I happen to know about (but there are others). A few vendors such as SGI offer DWB as an option for their UNIX-based systems. AT&T software licensing information can be obtained from (800)828-UNIX.
generous@dev.dtic.dla.mil (Curtis Generous) (05/04/90)
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: >"pic" is one of a set of troff preprocessors that interpret "small languages" >for specialized purposes, in this case for diagram drawing. Others include >"eqn" for conveniently specifying mathematical equations, "tbl" for tables, >and "grap" for convenient production of graphs. ... I have recently come across one troff preprocessor which I had never heard of before: grn. It is used in the /usr/doc/ps1/07.ipctut documents on my BSD machine, yet not available anywhere that I can find. Any troff-gurus know what this 'grn' does, and where it can be obtained? --curtis -- Curtis C. Generous Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) ARPA: generous@dev.dtic.dla.mil UUCP: {uunet,vrdxhq}!dev!generous