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GROFF_OUT(@MAN5EXT@)					  GROFF_OUT(@MAN5EXT@)

NAME
       groff_out - groff intermediate output format

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page describes the format output by GNU troff.  The output
       format used by GNU troff is very similar to that used by	 Unix  device-
       independent troff. Only the differences are documented here.

       The  argument  to the s command is in scaled points (units of points/n,
       where n is the argument to the sizescale command	 in  the  DESC	file.)
       The argument to the x Height command is also in scaled points.

       The first three output commands are guaranteed to be:

	      x T device
	      x res n h v
	      x init

       If  the	tcommand  line is present in the DESC file, troff will use the
       following two commands

       txxx   xxx is any sequence of characters terminated by  a  space	 or  a
	      newline;	the  first  character should be printed at the current
	      position, the current horizontal position should be increased by
	      the  width of the first character, and so on for each character.
	      The width of the character is  that  given  in  the  font	 file,
	      appropriately  scaled for the current point size, and rounded so
	      that it is a multiple of	the  horizontal	 resolution.   Special
	      characters cannot be printed using this command.

       un xxx This  is	same  as the t command except that after printing each
	      character, the current horizontal position is increased  by  the
	      sum of the width of that character and n.

       Note  that  single  characters  can have the eighth bit set, as can the
       names of fonts and special characters.

       The names of characters and fonts can be of arbitrary  length;  drivers
       should not assume that they will be only two characters long.

       When a character is to be printed, that character will always be in the
       current font.  Unlike device-independent troff, it is not necessary for
       drivers to search special fonts to find a character.

       The D drawing command has been extended.	 These extensions will only be
       used by GNU pic if the -x option is given.

       Df n\n Set the shade of gray to be used for filling solid objects to n;
	      n	 must  be  an  integer between 0 and 1000, where 0 corresponds
	      solid white and 1000 to solid black, and values in between  cor‐
	      respond  to  intermediate	 shades of gray.  This applies only to
	      solid circles, solid ellipses and solid polygons.	 By default, a
	      level  of 1000 will be used.  Whatever color a solid object has,
	      it should completely obscure everything  beneath	it.   A	 value
	      greater  than  1000  or less than 0 can also be used: this means
	      fill with the shade of gray that is  currently  being  used  for
	      lines  and  text.	 Normally this will be black, but some drivers
	      may provide a way of changing this.

       DC d\n Draw a solid circle with a diameter of d with the leftmost point
	      at the current position.

       DE dx dy\n
	      Draw a solid ellipse with a horizontal diameter of dx and a ver‐
	      tical diameter of dy with the  leftmost  point  at  the  current
	      position.

       Dp dx1 dy1 dx2 dy2 ... dxn dyn\n
	      Draw  a  polygon	with,  for i=1,...,n+1, the i-th vertex at the
	      current position +jΣ1(dxj,dyj).  At the  moment,	GNU  pic  only
	      uses this command to generate triangles and rectangles.

       DP dx1 dy1 dx2 dy2 ... dxn dyn\n
	      Like Dp but draw a solid rather than outlined polygon.

       Dt n\n Set  the	current line thickness to n machine units.  Tradition‐
	      ally Unix troff drivers use a line thickness proportional to the
	      current  point size; drivers should continue to do this if no Dt
	      command has been given, or if a Dt command has been given with a
	      negative	value  of  n.	A zero value of n selects the smallest
	      available line thickness.

       A difficulty arises in how the current position should be changed after
       the execution of these commands.	 This is not of great importance since
       the code generated by GNU pic does not depend on this.  Given a drawing
       command of the form

	      \D′c x1 y1 x2 y2 ... xn yn′

       where  c	 is  not one of c, e, l, a or ~, Unix troff will treat each of
       the xi as a horizontal quantity, and each of the yi as a vertical quan‐
       tity  and  will assume that the width of the drawn object is iΣ1xi, and
       that the height is iΣ1yi.  (The assumption about the height can be seen
       by  examining the st and sb registers after using such a D command in a
       \w escape sequence.)  This rule also holds for all the original drawing
       commands	 with  the exception of De.  For the sake of compatibility GNU
       troff also follows this rule, even though it produces an ugly result in
       the  case  of  the  Df, Dt, and, to a lesser extent, DE commands.  Thus
       after executing a D command of the form

	      Dc x1 y1 x2 y2 ... xn yn\n

       the current position should be increased by (iΣ1xi,iΣ1yi).

       There is a continuation convention which permits the  argument  to  the
       x X  command  to	 contain newlines: when outputting the argument to the
       x X command, GNU troff will follow each newline in the argument with  a
       +  character  (as  usual,  it will terminate the entire argument with a
       newline); thus if the line after the line containing  the  x X  command
       starts with +, then the newline ending the line containing the x X com‐
       mand should be treated as part of the argument to the x X command,  the
       + should be ignored, and the part of the line following the + should be
       treated like the part of the line following the x X command.

SEE ALSO
       groff_font(@MAN5EXT@)

Groff Version @VERSION@		    @MDATE@		  GROFF_OUT(@MAN5EXT@)
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