lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) (03/01/91)
I have recently obtained Gnu PIC, but it's documentation is rather scarce: it only lists differences from regular PIC / TPIC. Can anyone point me at some kind of tutorial or reference document for PIC ? Thanks in advance. -- Luc Rooijakkers Internet: lwj@cs.kun.nl Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science UUCP: uunet!cs.kun.nl!lwj University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands tel. +3180652271
rstevens@noao.edu (Rich Stevens) (03/02/91)
The best manual I've seen to date on pic is by Brian Kernighan in the 10th Edition manuals, Volume II. It's about 25 pages and is an update to the similar manual that came with the DWB 2.0 documentation. The new manual, however, is closer to the groff pic than the old DWB manual. Unfortunately, you need to buy at least the entire Volume II of the 10th edition manual set to get this 25 pages. Saunders College Publishing publishes the 10th edition manuals. The ISBN for Volume II is 0-03-047529-5. They were having a special last summer -- both volumes for $45, but I don't know if that's still on or not. Volume II by itself is listed at $33.95. The only number I have for their order department is 1-800-782-4479, which probably doesn't help you too much in Europe. Rich Stevens (rstevens@noao.edu)
fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) (03/11/91)
>>>>> On 1 Mar 91 11:23:33 GMT, lwj@cs.kun.nl (Luc Rooijakkers) said: Luc> I have recently obtained Gnu PIC, but it's documentation is rather Luc> scarce: it only lists differences from regular PIC / TPIC. Can anyone Luc> point me at some kind of tutorial or reference document for PIC ? The manual I have is @TechReport{kernighan:pic, author = "Brian W. Kernighan", title = "{PIC}---A Graphics Language for Typesetting (Revised User Manual)", institution = "{AT\&T} Bell Laboratories", year = "1984", type = "Computer Science Techincal Report", number = "No.\ 116", address = "Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA", month = "December", } Don't know if it's still available. /Lars -- Lars Fischer, fischer@iesd.auc.dk | Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral CS Dept., Univ. of Aalborg, DENMARK. | - B. Brecht
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (03/12/91)
You will find excellent tutorials as well as complete reference material in: UNIX Research System Papers, Tenth Edition Volume II ISBN 0-03-047529-5 Saunders College Publishing All articles are written by the folks who wrote the code, so they should know. Documentation is for Research Unix; everything said about pic, grap, tbl, -ms, -mpm, troff is also true for DWB 3.1 and 3.2, However, we cannot guarantee it applies to groff, sqtroff, BSD troff, or any other version. The book itself was produced using -mpm.
ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) (03/15/91)
In article <1991Mar12.151103.24407@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes: > >You will find excellent tutorials as well as complete >reference material in: > >UNIX Research System Papers, Tenth Edition Volume II >ISBN 0-03-047529-5 >Saunders College Publishing > >All articles are written by the folks who wrote the code, >so they should know. Documentation is for Research Unix; >everything said about pic, grap, tbl, -ms, -mpm, troff >is also true for DWB 3.1 and 3.2, However, we cannot >guarantee it applies to groff, sqtroff, BSD troff, or >any other version. >The book itself was produced using -mpm. How can one get a copy of this? ttl -- ____/ ___ ___/ / Kivihaantie 8 C 25 / / / SF-00310 HELSINKI, Finland ____ / / / Phone: +358 0 139 9015, +358 49 424 012 Stream Technologies Inc. Fax: +358 0 1399 0154