FLO(ID:5676/flo001)

Flowchart preprocessor for PIC

Country: us
- languages for us
- us/1989
Began: 1989

Flowchart preprocessor for PIC

FLO

Preprocessor for

References:

Wolfman, A.P. and Berry, D.M. "flo---A Language for Typesetting Flowcharts", Technical Report, Computer Science, Technion, Haifa, Israel (December, 1989). view details Abstract: flo is a language for including flowcharts into documents typeset
using the UNIX ditroff. A basic flowchart can be created with minimal effort by inputting only the basic algorithm written in a Pascal-like notation. [...] flo is a pic preprocessor, which in turn is a ditroff preprocessor. flo lets most of its input pass through untouched;
it translates flo commands lying between .FL and .FE into pic
commands that draw the flowcharts.

As ditroff forces all pic pictures to fit within a page, all
individual flowcharts are thus constrained to fit within one page. Since nodes have a certain minimum readable size, this one-page limitation limits the complexity of flowcharts that can be specified. External link: Online copy