Re: [Groff] Three topics related to images

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> To place two images side by side.
> How to place to two or more images side by side. HTML treateds
> a little picture almost as if it were a text item. If you put
> two pictures in the code after each other then they appear
> side by side (if there is space for that on the line). Can you
> do something similar in groff or what does it take to put two
> pictures up next to each other?

In the groff world, the mechanics of inserting a picture
(not drawn by troff itself) into the generated output is done
by the postprocessor via a "device special", which in the
case of grops is "ps: import".  Troff does not need to know
anything about the picture except to reserve a little space
for it, so it does not overwrite other parts of the output.
This is preferably done with a macro to simplify the markup,
but the included picture can be treated as an inline item
just like a normal piece of text, as the attached example
shows (deliberately left simple to better understand the
way it works).

inlinepic.ro
Description: Text document

f.ps
Description: PostScript document