Re: Drawing a pie chart

[Larry McVoy]

Wow!  I've done similar stuff but it was nowhere near as polished as this
stuff.  Nice job!!

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 09:52:24PM +0100, Deri wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 April 2022 19:22:25 BST Karchnu wrote:
> > Hello the groff ML! First timer here.
> > 
> > I wanted to know if there is a way to draw pie charts with roff.
> > I checked the ML for this, and all I found was a thread from 17 years
> > ago mentioning this, but the solution was a bit of an hack.
> > 
> > Is there a solution nowadays to easily create pie charts with roff?
> > Either using pic or not (but it would make sense).
> > The official (and old) pic documentation doesn't provide much to work
> > with, there is a way to create arcs but the angle is just plain hack-ish.
> > 
> > The desired output is PDF, but PS is acceptable (as long as I can draw a
> > pie chart with roff and not with an external tool).
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Have a good day
> 
> I did some work on producing "business graphs" (including pie charts). If the 
> attached pdf is the sort of thing you want, you can download the software 
> here:-
> 
> http://chuzzlewit.co.uk/busgrap-20181129.tgz
> 
> Cheers 
> 
> Deri



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