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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 19:21:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 19:21:11 1987
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Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
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Keywords: TeX, troff
Summary: use the \special{} macro

In article <24106@rochester.ARPA>, ken@rochester.ARPA (SKY) writes:

> On the other hand, some documents need troff, like Unix man pages.
> And there is nothing like pic in the TeX world yet.
> 
> 	Ken

	One can fake the pic option using the \special{} macro
	in TeX. When I was at the Phys. Dept. at the Univ. of
	Toronto, the Geophysics boys were working on including
	graphics (ie plots etc) into the dvi file by the way of
	\special. It seems to work fine, dispite a little bug here
	and there at the beginning.

... Peter/