RE: [Groff] couple of questions regarding pic

[Wolfgang Huber]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 address@hidden wrote:

> 
> As things stand, unfortunately not. 
I already feared something like that but your macro seems to be a viable
workaround.

> 
> 
> 
> It works (or at any rate does something not altogether silly, though
> I think it needs tidying up) if you get pi as
> 
> pi = 4*atan(1,1)
> 
> instead of
> 
> pi = atan2(0,1)
> 
I just copied the code from the Kernighan manual, I didn't check for the
definition of atan2()

thanks

Wolfgang