[Groff-commit] groff ./ChangeLog src/devices/grops/grops.man

[Werner LEMBERG]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/groff
Module name:    groff
Branch:         
Changes by:     Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> 06/03/26 13:15:05

Modified files:
        .              : ChangeLog 
        src/devices/grops: grops.man 

Log message:
        * src/devices/grops/grops.man: Some clarifications regarding
        insertion of PostScript snippets.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/groff/groff/ChangeLog.diff?tr1=1.941&tr2=1.942&r1=text&r2=text
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/groff/groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man.diff?tr1=1.30&tr2=1.31&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: groff/ChangeLog
diff -u groff/ChangeLog:1.941 groff/ChangeLog:1.942
--- groff/ChangeLog:1.941       Sun Mar 26 08:55:37 2006
+++ groff/ChangeLog     Sun Mar 26 13:15:04 2006
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
        * doc/groff.texinfo: More documentation on end-of-macro symbol of
        `.de'.
-       Minor addition ot `.di' description.
+       Minor addition to `.di' description.
+
+       * src/devices/grops/grops.man: Some clarifications regarding
+       insertion of PostScript snippets.
 
 2006-03-25  Michail Vidiassov  <address@hidden>
 
Index: groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man
diff -u groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man:1.30 
groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man:1.31
--- groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man:1.30      Sat Mar 18 17:30:20 2006
+++ groff/src/devices/grops/grops.man   Sun Mar 26 13:15:05 2006
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@
 containing slanted lowercase Greek letters taken from PS Symbol.
 .
 Zapf Dingbats is available as
-.BR ZD
+.BR ZD ,
 and a reversed version of ZapfDingbats (with symbols pointing in the opposite
 direction) is available as
 .BR ZDR ;
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
 .B \[rs]m
 and
 .B \[rs]M
-is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space,
+is black; for colors defined in the `rgb' color space
 .B setrgbcolor
 is used, for `cmy' and `cmyk'
 .BR setcmykcolor ,
@@ -596,7 +596,8 @@
 A procedure\~\c
 .B u
 is defined that converts groff units
-to the coordinate system in effect.
+to the coordinate system in effect (provided the user doesn't change the
+scale).
 .
 For example, 
 .
@@ -653,6 +654,26 @@
 .
 .LP
 is another way to draw a horizontal line one inch long.
+.
+Note the single backslash before `nx' \[en] the only reason to use a number
+register while defining the macro `y' is to convert a user-specified
+dimension `1i' to internal groff units which are in turn converted to PS
+units with the
+.B u
+procedure.
+.
+.LP
+.B grops
+wraps user-specified PostScript code into a dictionary, nothing more.
+.
+In particular, it doesn't start and end the inserted code with
+.B save
+and
+.BR restore ,
+respectively.
+.
+This must be supplied by the user, if necessary.
+.
 .RE
 .
 .TP