Re: [Groff] rotating a pic block

[Denis M. Wilson]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:00:10 -0400
"James K. Lowden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2010-01/msg00007.html
> http://www.schemamania.org/sailing/bh/
> 
> In looking for a way to rotate pic figures, I found Ted Harding's
> message, which offers a nifty trick.  But it seems it doesn't quite
> work if the figure to be rotated is a block containing a macro call.  
> 
> Could someone tell me, please, why in the file bh.ms the quotation
> marks in the Boat macro aren't rotated along with everything else?  Am
> I using the macro or block feature incorrectly, or does "rotate" need
> to be modified to handle this case?  
> 
> A matter of escapement?

The simple answer seems to be the extra " characters at the end of
your .ds statements.

Denis
> 
> Many thanks.  
> 
> --jkl
> 


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