TY - GEN
T1 - PIC — A language for typesetting graphics
AU - Kernighan, Brian W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 1981 ACM.
PY - 1981/6/8
Y1 - 1981/6/8
N2 - PIC is a language for specifying pictures so that they can be typeset as an integral part of a document preparation system. The basic objects in PIC are boxes, lines, arrows, circles, ellipses, arcs and splines, which may be placed anywhere and labeled with arbitrary text. Most of the effort in designing PIC has gone into making it possible to specify the sizes and positions of objects with minimal use of absolute coordinates. This paper describes PIC, with primary emphasis on those aspects of the language that make it easy to use.
AB - PIC is a language for specifying pictures so that they can be typeset as an integral part of a document preparation system. The basic objects in PIC are boxes, lines, arrows, circles, ellipses, arcs and splines, which may be placed anywhere and labeled with arbitrary text. Most of the effort in designing PIC has gone into making it possible to specify the sizes and positions of objects with minimal use of absolute coordinates. This paper describes PIC, with primary emphasis on those aspects of the language that make it easy to use.
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U2 - 10.1145/800209.806459
DO - 10.1145/800209.806459
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84976790974
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA Symposium on Text Manipulation
SP - 92
EP - 98
BT - Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA Symposium on Text Manipulation
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 1981 ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA Symposium on Text Manipulation
Y2 - 8 June 1981 through 10 June 1981
ER -