Follow-up Comment #2, bug #68855 (group groff): [comment #1 comment #1:] > I believe at the time I told you my choice of 1 and 2 for the > mutually exclusive ways of influencing line thickness was purely to save > typing
Yes, I don't doubt that it's more economical for you, and that's great, but... > "computed from the current font size" (1) and "set by the drawing commmand > \D't nnn'" (2). ...this distinction leaves me no wider because **it isn't a distinction**. You can set configure a stroke thickness that is computed from the current font size **with** the drawing command "\D't nnn'"...and in fact, that is the only way in the *roff language to do so. We don't have a request or an alternative escape sequence for configuring the stroke thickness. > The important thing was to help you understand what was occurring since you > appeared confused. Right. Well, evidently I'm still confused. > See <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68671>. I'm familiar. Here's an exhibit of what I, in an unguarded moment, might call the _three_ "modes" of stroke thickness configuration: (a) proportional to the type size; (b) the minimum supported by the device; and (c) an explicit amount in (I think) 'M' units, hundredths of an em. $ cat ATTIC/stroke-thickness.roff .sp 0.5i This is text at \n[.ps] points. .sp 0.5i \D't -1'\D'l 1i 1i'\D't 0'\D'l -1i 1i'\D't 6000'\D'l 0 -1i' .sp 0.5i Drawing position ends up here. In the foregoing, you can see that I use only one form of instruction to the formatter to configure the stroke thickness, and in the attached PostScript file, you will be able to see that all three stroke thicknesses are distinct. Explanations just do not stick in my head if I can't make sense of them. I'm not trying to be difficult; it's just that your mode 1/mode 2 explanation keeping falling out of my brain mere moments after I read it, because it clashes with other things I think I know about the formatter and the *roff language. (Please excuse the error in the text of the document: the size of the text is presented in "scaled" (or subdivided) points, not true points.) (file #59161, file #59162) _______________________________________________________ Additional Item Attachment: Name: stroke-thickness.ps Size: 6.7KiB <https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/stroke-thickness.ps?file_id=59161> Name: stroke-thickness.png Size: 23KiB <https://file.savannah.gnu.org/file/stroke-thickness.png?file_id=59162> AGPL NOTICE These attachments are served by Savane. You can download the corresponding source code of Savane at https://savannah.gnu.org/source/savane-8c6c341578ed1ff525dc746b94af9a11d30d7444.tar.gz _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?68855> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/
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