PIC

[Doug Gwyn <gwyn>]

> DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN GET 'PIC', A PROGRAM TO INCLUDE
> GRAPHICS WITHIN TEXT? IS THIS A UNIX UTILITY? DOES IT BEAR ANY
> RELATIONSHIP TO TROFF? I'M USING AN IMAGEN LASERPRINTER FOR OUTPUT.

"Pic" is a preprocessor for troff.  It is included in the TITROFF
package that used to be available from Bell Labs at Murray Hill
(and may still be, I don't know).  It is also part of the
Documenter's WorkBench package available under license from AT&T
Technologies.  There is a newer, more programmable and more
device-independent, version of "pic" (both versions developed by
Brian Kernighan), but I haven't heard whether or how it is
available.  The new version supports "grap", a graphing language.
I provide a somewhat cleaned-up version of "pic" as part of the
BRL UNIX System V emulation to sites that also have a DWB source
license.  The original AT&T version requires the new graphic
primitives of device-independent troff, but I turned back on the
support for old C/A/T-style troff "dot plotting" so that both
methods work, depending on the target device.

If you don't know who your AT&T representative is, try calling
(800)828-UNIX and tell them you want to know about licensing DWB.