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Re: using pic with -Thtml
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Gaius Mulley |
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Re: using pic with -Thtml |
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:08:13 +0000 |
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hbezemer--- via <groff@gnu.org> writes:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to create a html file with some graphics created by pic.
> Maybe I'm missing the obvious but I'm not able to get it to work.
> The following command:
> echo ".PS\nbox\n.PE" | pic | groff -Thtml -U
>
> results in:
> <!-- Creator : groff version 1.23.0 -->
> <!-- CreationDate: Wed Nov 29 06:35:31 2023 -->
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
> <html>
> <head>
> <meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org">
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
> <meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css">
> <style type="text/css">
> p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
> pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
> table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
> h1 { text-align: center }
> </style>
> <title></title>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <hr>
> <hr>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> I like to get some advice on what I can do better.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Hans
Hi Hans,
place the input into a filename and invoke groff using -p and -ms
(rather than use pic in a pipeline). The reason is that groff parses
the input file twice (once to generate html and once to generate the
images via ps).
So:
$ cat foo.n
.PS
box
.PE
$ groff -p -ms -Thtml foo.n
<!-- Creator : groff version 1.22.4 -->
<!-- CreationDate: Wed Nov 29 14:05:19 2023 -->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<meta name="generator" content="groff -Thtml, see www.gnu.org">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII">
<meta name="Content-Style" content="text/css">
<style type="text/css">
p { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
pre { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
table { margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; vertical-align: top }
h1 { text-align: center }
</style>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<hr>
<p align="center" style="margin-top: 1em"><img src="grohtml-1446821.png"
alt="Image grohtml-1446821.png"></p>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
regards,
Gaius