Pic advice (almost a bug)

[Jim Webb]

> Here is my latest pic discovery.  Although this is not a bug
> report per se, the following advice may prove very helpful if you
> want your pic-tures to come out right.
> 
> In an apparent attempt to make pic
> usable with the old troff, pic draws short lines using the new
> line drawing commands, and draws longer lines using repeated base line
> rule characters. 
> 
> If you get boxes and lines that don't quite match up,
> look to the pltroff.c file for the answer. Tho this isn't a bug,
> these printer dependencies could be handled more gracefully.
> 

Or, you could use the -D option on pic, which says to use all \D requests
instead of multiple rules...
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Jim Webb                                        ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw