PIC(ID:1007/pic001)

Graphics meta-language 

Brian Kernighan. Graphics meta-language for textually describing pictures, for use with troff.


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Related languages
GRAP => PIC   Target language for
IDEAL => PIC   Influence
PICTURE => PIC   Influence
V => PIC   Influence
PIC => CHEM   Preprocessor for
PIC => DAG   Preprocessor for
PIC => DFORMAT   Preprocessor for
PIC => DRAG   Preprocessor for
PIC => FLO   Preprocessor for
PIC => g3   Preprocessor for
PIC => TROFF   Preprocessor for
References:
  • Kernighan, Brian W. "PIC—a language for typesetting graphics" view details Abstract: 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.

          in SIGPLAN Notices 16(06) June 1981, also Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN SIGOA symposium on Text manipulation 1981, Portland, Oregon view details
  • Kernighan, B.W. "PIC - A Language for Typesetting Graphics" pp1-21 view details
          in Software — Practice and Experience 12(01) January 1982 view details
  • Kernighan, B. W. "PIC A Graphics Language for Typesetting, Revised User Manual", Bell Labs TR 116, Dec 1984. view details
          in Software — Practice and Experience 12(01) January 1982 view details
  • Kernighan, B.W. "Pic --- A Graphics Language for Typesetting" In Unix Programmer's Manual, Tenth Edition, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1989. view details
          in Software — Practice and Experience 12(01) January 1982 view details