Line layout illustrated (was: collected groff man pages and performance)

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Mon, 25 May 2026 23:13:01 -0500

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Hi Stefan,

At 2026-05-25T16:41:12+0200, Stefan Möding wrote:
> "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.

Thanks!  This looks great!  I saw another GNU manual sneaking embedded
images into their text, which gave me this idea.  Now I just have to
look up how to do _that_part.

I think I'll slip it into groff(7), too.  Fortunately I already know
exactly how.  ;-)

Regards,
Branden

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