Re: [Groff] multiple EPS images placed on a page

[Joachim Walsdorff]

Dean Allen Provins schrieb:
> Readers:
>
> For the record, HDTBL works just fine.  I ended up with code like the
> following (for A0 paper):
>
>   .po    1c
>   .sp   |0.5c
>   .TBL cols=12 width='9.7c'
>   .ll    116c
>   .pl    116c
>   .TR
>   .TD
>   .PSPIC file.eps 9.7c
>   .TD
>   ....  more .TD, .PSPIC lines
>   .TR
>   .TD
>   .PSPIC anotherfile.eps 9.7c
>   .TD
>   .nop  \" when no EPS file is needed here
>   ...
>   .ETB
>
> And executed groff as:
>
>   groff  -mhdtbl  -P-l -P-p -PA0 file.ms > file.ps
>
> to get a nice landscape plots with a maximum of 12 columns (some had no
> EPS files).
>
> The only concern was a multitude of error messages:
>
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:24: Table width larger than column width.
>   
To avoid this warning You must a)  place the .ll request before .TBL and 
b) increase the linelength a little, because 12x9.7 is 106.4.
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:24: multiplication overflow
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:24: division by zero
>   
These messages result from a bug in hdtbl.tmac. (I didn't test with 
extreme long lines.) I will look for it as soon as possible.
>     --- last 2 lines repeated many times ---
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:24: multiplication overflow
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:24: division by zero
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:29: numeric overflow
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:31: numeric overflow
>   MANNVILLE_BLUESKY-GLAUCONITE.ms:33: numeric overflow
>     --- last line repeated to the end of input ---
>
> where line 24 was the .TBL line above, and lines 29, 31, 33 and all
> PSPIC lines thereafter were the 'numeric overflow' lines.
>
> None seemed to do any harm, but clearly there is a problem.
>
> Regards and thanks for the help,
>
> Dean
>
>

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