Re: collected groff man pages and performance

Stefan Möding <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 16:41:12 +0200
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Organization Guild of part-time BOFH wizardry
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Hi Branden,

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> writes:

> groff's Texinfo manual has long featured a diagram illustrating the
> anatomy of the output line.

> (Would anyone like to recreate this diagram in pic(1) so that we can
> use tpic to embed it it using `@iftex`?)

> https://www.gnu.org/software/groff/manual/groff.html.node/Line-Layout.html

I’ve created a diagram that might be used as a starting point.  Attached
is the PIC code and a PDF generated from that code.


-- 
Stefan
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