I now see that there's a notation for the corner points of a polygon. That could be applied to a spline as well, or even a multisegment line.
On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 6:04 PM G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Update of bug #67866 (group groff): > > Status: None => Confirmed > > _______________________________________________________ > > Follow-up Comment #4: > > > [comment #0 original submission:] > > For splines, pic identifies compass points (.n, .ne, .e, ..., .nw) with > > endpoints (.start or .end). This makes no sense. It would be better to > > declare their use illegal. Alternatively, they might be placed on the > > spline's bounding box. > > > > Here's a reproducer for Doug's observation. > > > $ cat ATTIC/67866.roff > .PS > spline right 1 then down .5 left 1 then right 1 > arrow from .s of last spline down 1 > arrow from .se of last spline up 1 > .PE > > > He's right. It doesn't make much sense. I have no idea how GNU _pic_ > deduced > "end" from ".s" and ".start" from ".se". > > Attaching image. > > (file #58090) > > _______________________________________________________ > > Additional Item Attachment: > > Name: 67866.png Size: 20KiB > <https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/67866.png?file_id=58090> > > > AGPL NOTICE > > These attachments are served by Savane. You can download the corresponding > source code of Savane at > > https://savannah.gnu.org/source/savane-7f2502422ca8a0e66cc31e092529630c17f6c7cf.tar.gz > > > _______________________________________________________ > > To reply to this notification, you have two options: > * In the Web UI at <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67866>. > * By email to 347287-bugs-savannah <[email protected]>, ONLY IF > you preserve both > the 'display name' and the 'address specification' in the To: header > AND you sign your email with a GPG key registered in your Savannah > account > AND you include the following line in the reply: > > {savane: user = 347287; tracker = bugs; item = 67866} > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via Savannah > https://savannah.gnu.org/ >
