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From: rick@pcrat.uucp (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Shaded Boxes in PIC
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.032906.10582@pcrat.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 89 03:29:06 GMT
References: <546@dcdwest.UUCP> <127725@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <309@opel.uu.net> <117@qtlon.quantime.co.uk>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
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In article <117@qtlon.quantime.co.uk> skyer@qtlon.UUCP (Susannah Skyer) writes:

>It's true that pic does not write PostScript, but this is not to say
>that you can't get shaded shapes in your troff'ed document.

>There should be a way in your pic/troff doc to pass instructions directly
>through to the printer (i.e., the PostScript, imPress, or whatever interpreter)

What we really need to do though, to improve the portability
of troff documents, is to come up with an extended, upwardly
compatible set of standard troff input and output primitives
that will cover many of these cases without having to resort
to inclusion of printer specific commands within a document.
I mean, it does seem silly to me to resort to using embedded
printer commands because you want to have a shaded box in a
pic diagram.  I really would like to think that we could agree
on a common set of troff input and output *additions* to the
current languages.

-Rick

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