ggrn
(1)
Name
ggrn - groff preprocessor for gremlin files
Synopsis
ggrn [ -Cv ] [ -Tdev ] [ -Mdir ] [ -Fdir ] [ file... ]
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line
option and its parameter.
Description
User Commands GGRN(1)
NAME
ggrn - groff preprocessor for gremlin files
SYNOPSIS
ggrn [ -Cv ] [ -Tdev ] [ -Mdir ] [ -Fdir ] [ file... ]
It is possible to have whitespace between a command line
option and its parameter.
DESCRIPTION
ggrn is a preprocessor for including gremlin pictures in
groff input. ggrn writes to standard output, processing
only input lines between two that start with .GS and .GE.
Those lines must contain ggrn commands (see below). These
commands request a gremlin file, and the picture in that
file is converted and placed in the gtroff input stream.
The .GS request may be followed by a C, L, or R to center,
left, or right justify the whole gremlin picture (default
justification is center). If no file is mentioned, the
standard input is read. At the end of the picture, the
position on the page is the bottom of the gremlin picture.
If the ggrn entry is ended with .GF instead of .GE, the
position is left at the top of the picture.
Please note that currently only the -me macro package has
support for .GS, .GE, and .GF.
The following command-line options are understood:
-Tdev
Prepare output for printer dev. The default device is
ps. See groff(1) for acceptable devices.
-Mdir
Prepend dir to the default search path for gremlin
files. The default path is (in that order) the current
directory, the home directory,
/usr/lib/sparcv9/groff/site-tmac,
/usr/share/groff/site-tmac, and
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/tmac.
-Fdir
Search dir for subdirectories devname (name is the name
of the device) for the DESC file before the default
font directories /usr/share/groff/site-font,
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font, and /usr/lib/font.
-C Recognize .GS and .GE (and .GF) even when followed by a
character other than space or newline.
-v Print the version number.
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GRN COMMANDS
Each input line between .GS and .GE may have one ggrn com-
mand. Commands consist of one or two strings separated by
white space, the first string being the command and the sec-
ond its operand. Commands may be upper or lower case and
abbreviated down to one character.
Commands that affect a picture's environment (those listed
before default, see below) are only in effect for the cur-
rent picture: The environment is reinitialized to the
defaults at the start of the next picture. The commands are
as follows:
1 N
2 N
3 N
4 N Set gremlin's text size number 1 (2, 3, or 4) to N
points. The default is 12 (16, 24, and 36, respec-
tively).
roman f
italics f
bold f
special f
Set the roman (italics, bold, or special) font to
gtroff's font f (either a name or number). The default
is R (I, B, and S, respectively).
l f
stipple f
Set the stipple font to gtroff's stipple font f (name
or number). The command stipple may be abbreviated
down as far as `st' (to avoid confusion with special).
There is no default for stipples (unless one is set by
the default command), and it is invalid to include a
gremlin picture with polygons without specifying a
stipple font.
x N
scale N
Magnify the picture (in addition to any default magni-
fication) by N, a floating point number larger than
zero. The command scale may be abbreviated down to
`sc'.
narrow N
medium N
thick N
Set the thickness of gremlin's narrow (medium and
thick, respectively) lines to N times 0.15pt (this
value can be changed at compile time). The default is
1.0 (3.0 and 5.0, respectively), which corresponds to
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0.15pt (0.45pt and 0.75pt, respectively). A thickness
value of zero selects the smallest available line
thickness. Negative values cause the line thickness to
be proportional to the current point size.
pointscale <off/on>
Scale text to match the picture. Gremlin text is usu-
ally printed in the point size specified with the com-
mands 1, 2, 3, or 4, regardless of any scaling factors
in the picture. Setting pointscale will cause the
point sizes to scale with the picture (within gtroff's
limitations, of course). An operand of anything but
off will turn text scaling on.
default
Reset the picture environment defaults to the settings
in the current picture. This is meant to be used as a
global parameter setting mechanism at the beginning of
the gtroff input file, but can be used at any time to
reset the default settings.
width N
Forces the picture to be N inches wide. This overrides
any scaling factors present in the same picture.
`width 0' is ignored.
height N
Forces picture to be N inches high, overriding other
scaling factors. If both `width' and `height' are
specified the tighter constraint will determine the
scale of the picture. Height and width commands are
not saved with a default command. They will, however,
affect point size scaling if that option is set.
file name
Get picture from gremlin file name located the current
directory (or in the library directory; see the -M
option above). If two file commands are given, the
second one overrides the first. If name doesn't exist,
an error message is reported and processing continues
from the .GE line.
NOTES ABOUT GROFF
Since ggrn is a preprocessor, it doesn't know about current
indents, point sizes, margins, number registers, etc. Con-
sequently, no gtroff input can be placed between the .GS and
.GE requests. However, gremlin text is now processed by
gtroff, so anything legal in a single line of gtroff input
is legal in a line of gremlin text (barring `.' directives
at the beginning of a line). Thus, it is possible to have
equations within a gremlin figure by including in the grem-
lin file eqn expressions enclosed by previously defined
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delimiters (e.g. $$).
When using ggrn along with other preprocessors, it is best
to run tbl before ggrn, pic, and/or ideal to avoid overwork-
ing tbl. Eqn should always be run last.
A picture is considered an entity, but that doesn't stop
gtroff from trying to break it up if it falls off the end of
a page. Placing the picture between `keeps' in -me macros
will ensure proper placement.
ggrn uses gtroff's number registers g1 through g9 and sets
registers g1 and g2 to the width and height of the gremlin
figure (in device units) before entering the .GS request
(this is for those who want to rewrite these macros).
GREMLIN FILE FORMAT
There exist two distinct gremlin file formats, the original
format from the AED graphic terminal version, and the SUN or
X11 version. An extension to the SUN/X11 version allowing
reference points with negative coordinates is not compatible
with the AED version. As long as a gremlin file does not
contain negative coordinates, either format will be read
correctly by either version of gremlin or ggrn. The other
difference to the SUN/X11 format is the use of names for
picture objects (e.g., POLYGON, CURVE) instead of numbers.
Files representing the same picture are shown in Table 1 in
each format.
sungremlinfile gremlinfile
0 240.00 128.00 0 240.00 128.00
CENTCENT 2
240.00 128.00 240.00 128.00
185.00 120.00 185.00 120.00
240.00 120.00 240.00 120.00
296.00 120.00 296.00 120.00
* -1.00 -1.00
2 3 2 3
10 A Triangle 10 A Triangle
POLYGON 6
224.00 416.00 224.00 416.00
96.00 160.00 96.00 160.00
384.00 160.00 384.00 160.00
* -1.00 -1.00
5 1 5 1
0 0
-1 -1
Table 1. File examples
o The first line of each gremlin file contains either the
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string gremlinfile (AED version) or sungremlinfile
(SUN/X11)
o The second line of the file contains an orientation,
and x and y values for a positioning point, separated
by spaces. The orientation, either 0 or 1, is ignored
by the SUN/X11 version. 0 means that gremlin will dis-
play things in horizontal format (drawing area wider
than it is tall, with menu across top). 1 means that
gremlin will display things in vertical format (drawing
area taller than it is wide, with menu on left side).
x and y are floating point values giving a positioning
point to be used when this file is read into another
file. The stuff on this line really isn't all that
important; a value of ``1 0.00 0.00'' is suggested.
o The rest of the file consists of zero or more element
specifications. After the last element specification
is a line containing the string ``-1''.
o Lines longer than 127 characters are chopped to this
limit.
ELEMENT SPECIFICATIONS
o The first line of each element contains a single deci-
mal number giving the type of the element (AED version)
or its ASCII name (SUN/X11 version). See Table 2.
gremlin File Format - Object Type Specification
AED Number SUN/X11 Name Description
0 BOTLEFT bottom-left-justified text
1 BOTRIGHT bottom-right-justified text
2 CENTCENT center-justified text
3 VECTOR vector
4 ARC arc
5 CURVE curve
6 POLYGON polygon
7 BSPLINE b-spline
8 BEZIER Bzier
10 TOPLEFT top-left-justified text
11 TOPCENT top-center-justified text
12 TOPRIGHT top-right-justified text
13 CENTLEFT left-center-justified text
14 CENTRIGHT right-center-justified text
15 BOTCENT bottom-center-justified text
Table 2.
Type Specifications in gremlin Files
o After the object type comes a variable number of lines,
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each specifying a point used to display the element.
Each line contains an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate
in floating point format, separated by spaces. The
list of points is terminated by a line containing the
string ``-1.0 -1.0'' (AED version) or a single aster-
isk, ``*'' (SUN/X11 version).
o After the points comes a line containing two decimal
values, giving the brush and size for the element. The
brush determines the style in which things are drawn.
For vectors, arcs, and curves there are six legal brush
values:
1 - thin dotted lines
2 - thin dot-dashed lines
3 - thick solid lines
4 - thin dashed lines
5 - thin solid lines
6 - medium solid lines
For polygons, one more value, 0, is legal. It speci-
fies a polygon with an invisible border. For text, the
brush selects a font as follows:
1 - roman (R font in groff)
2 - italics (I font in groff)
3 - bold (B font in groff)
4 - special (S font in groff)
If you're using ggrn to run your pictures through
groff, the font is really just a starting font: The
text string can contain formatting sequences like
``\fI'' or ``\d'' which may change the font (as well as
do many other things). For text, the size field is a
decimal value between 1 and 4. It selects the size of
the font in which the text will be drawn. For poly-
gons, this size field is interpreted as a stipple num-
ber to fill the polygon with. The number is used to
index into a stipple font at print time.
o The last line of each element contains a decimal number
and a string of characters, separated by a single
space. The number is a count of the number of charac-
ters in the string. This information is only used for
text elements, and contains the text string. There can
be spaces inside the text. For arcs, curves, and vec-
tors, this line of the element contains the string
``0''.
NOTES ON COORDINATES
gremlin was designed for AEDs, and its coordinates reflect
the AED coordinate space. For vertical pictures, x-values
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range 116 to 511, and y-values from 0 to 483. For horizon-
tal pictures, x-values range from 0 to 511 and y-values
range from 0 to 367. Although you needn't absolutely stick
to this range, you'll get best results if you at least stay
in this vicinity. Also, point lists are terminated by a
point of (-1, -1), so you shouldn't ever use negative coor-
dinates. gremlin writes out coordinates using format
``%f1.2''; it's probably a good idea to use the same format
if you want to modify the ggrn code.
NOTES ON SUN/X11 COORDINATES
There is no longer a restriction on the range of coordinates
used to create objects in the SUN/X11 version of gremlin.
However, files with negative coordinates will cause problems
if displayed on the AED.
FILES
/usr/share/groff/1.19.2/font/devname/DESC
Device description file for device name.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | text/groff |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
gremlin(1), groff(1), gpic(1), ideal(1)
HISTORY
David Slattengren and Barry Roitblat wrote the original
Berkeley ggrn.
Daniel Senderowicz and Werner Lemberg modified it for groff.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/groff/groff-1.19.2.tar.gz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/groff/.
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