Re: [Groff] Paper about PIC implementation?

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Christian,

> > The implementation, i.e. how it produces troff?  Or how to use pic?
> 
> How it produces troff, i.e. internal representation of objects and
> especially the layout of objects that are constrained by "with" et al.

Ah.

> > http://troff.org/papers.html is a start.  
> 
> The PIC section lists user manuals but I guess that there are
> technical reports about the inner working of PIC.

I've never heard of any.  My guess is that pic's internal workings
weren't `novel' at the time pic was written so they weren't worthy of a
paper;  any interested party could look at the source.  What was of
interest was pic's interface to the user, and how it fitted in with the
rest of the `pipeline'.

Cheers,


Ralph.