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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000
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Adding upstream version 1.23.0.upstream/1.23.0upstream
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+.\" groff -ms -msboxes -Tpdf
+.nr LL 17c
+.nr PO 2c
+.nr PS 11
+.nr VS 13
+.nr PI 3.5n
+.nr HM 2c
+.nr FM 2c
+.nr QI 7n
+.ss 12 0
+.ND March 2021
+.EH '%''March 2021'
+.EF ''''
+.OH 'Using PDF boxes with \f[I]groff\f[] and the \f[I]ms\f[] macros''%'
+.OF ''''
+.\" Define a quotation macro.
+.de Qq
+. nop \[lq]\\$1\[rq]\\$2
+..
+.\" Define a macro for code literals; use bold and disable hyphenation.
+.de Lt
+. ft B
+. nh
+. nop \&\\$1\c
+. hy \\n[HY]
+. ft
+. nop \&\\$2
+..
+.ds FAM H
+.TL
+Using PDF boxes with
+.BI groff
+and the
+.BI ms
+macros
+.AU
+Deri James
+.AI
+deri@chuzzlewit.myzen.co.uk
+.LP
+An extension in version 1.23.0 of
+.I gropdf ,
+the PDF output driver for the
+.I groff
+document formatting system,
+allows coloured rectangles to be placed beneath any output created by
+.I groff .
+The extension can be accessed via a device control escape sequence
+.Lt "\[rs]X\[aq]pdf: background" \~.\|.\|.\|\c
+.Lt \[aq]
+or a convenience macro
+.Lt pdfbackground
+supporting the same parameters.
+.QS
+.BOXSTART SHADED cornsilk OUTLINED brown INDENT 2n WEIGHT 1p
+\M[floralwhite]\c
+.pdfbackground pagefill
+\M[]\c
+.B
+\[rs]X\[aq]pdf: background
+.BI
+cmd left top right bottom weight\[aq]
+.br
+.Lt .pdfbackground
+.BI
+cmd left top right bottom weight
+.LP
+each produce a background rectangle on the page, where
+.IP \f[I]cmd 8n \" indent enough to fit "bottom" tag
+is the command, which can be any of
+.Qq page|fill|box
+in combination.
+Thus,
+.Qq pagefill
+would draw a rectangle which covers the whole current page size (in
+which case the rest of the parameters can be omitted because the box
+dimensions are taken from the current media size).
+.Qq boxfill ,
+on the other hand, requires the given dimensions to place the box.
+Including
+.Qq fill
+in the command will paint the rectangle with the current fill colour (as
+with
+.Lt \[rs]M[] )
+and including
+.Qq box
+will give the rectangle a border in the current stroke colour
+(as with
+.Lt \[rs]m[] ).
+.sp \n[PD]u
+.I cmd
+may also be
+.Qq off
+on its own, which will terminate drawing the current box.
+If you have specified a page colour with
+.Qq pagefill ,
+it is always the first box in the stack, and if you specify it again, it
+will replace the first entry.
+Be aware that the
+.Qq pagefill
+box renders the page opaque, so tools that
+.Qq watermark
+PDF pages are unlikely to be successful.
+To return the background to transparent, issue an
+.Qq off
+command with no other boxes open.
+.sp \n[PD]u
+Finally,
+.I cmd
+may be
+.Qq footnote
+followed by a new value for
+.I bottom ,
+which will be used for all open boxes on the current page.
+This is to allow room for footnote areas that grow while a page is
+processed (to accommodate multiple footnotes,
+for instance).\m[red]\**\m[]\" FOOTNOTE
+.FS
+If the value is negative, it is used as an offset from the bottom of the
+page.
+.FE
+.nr oldPD \n[PD]
+.nr PD 0
+.IP \f[I]left
+.IP \f[I]top
+.IP \f[I]right
+.IP \f[I]bottom
+.nr PD \n[oldPD]
+are the coordinates of the box.
+The
+.I top
+and
+.I bottom
+coordinates are the minimum and maximum for the box, since the actual
+start of the box is
+.I groff 's
+drawing position when you issue the command, and the bottom of the box
+is the point where you turn the box
+.Qq off .
+The top and bottom coordinates are used only if the box drawing extends
+onto the next page; ordinarily, they would be set to the header and
+footer margins.
+.IP \f[I]weight
+provides the line width for the border if
+.Qq box
+is included in the command.
+.BOXSTOP
+.QE
+For an even more convenient interface, include
+.Lt \-msboxes
+on the
+.I groff
+command line; the
+.I sboxes
+package defines the macros
+.Lt BOXSTART
+and
+.Lt BOXSTOP .
+.QS
+.BOXSTART SHADED cornsilk OUTLINED brown INDENT 2n WEIGHT 1p
+.BOXSTART SHADED cornsilk3 INDENT 2p
+.Lt .BOXSTART
+.Lt SHADED
+.I colour
+.Lt OUTLINED
+.I colour
+.Lt INDENT
+.I size
+.Lt WEIGHT
+.I size
+.BOXSTOP
+.LP
+begins a box,
+where the argument after
+.Lt SHADED
+gives the fill colour and that after
+.Lt OUTLINED
+the border colour.
+Omit the former to get a borderless filled box and the latter for a
+border with no fill.
+The specified
+.Lt WEIGHT
+is used if the box is
+.Lt OUTLINED .
+.LP
+.Lt INDENT
+precedes a value which leaves a gap between the border and the contents
+inside the box.
+.LP
+Each
+.I colour
+must be a defined
+.I groff
+colour name,
+and each
+.I size
+a valid
+.I groff
+numeric expression.
+The keyword/value pairs can be specified in any order.
+.BOXSTOP
+.QE
+Boxes can be stacked, so you can start a box within another box; usually
+the later boxes would be smaller than the containing box, but this is
+not enforced.
+When using
+.Lt BOXSTART ,
+the left position is the current indent minus the
+.Lt INDENT
+in the command,
+and the right position is the left position (calculated above) plus the
+current line length and twice the indent.
+The synopsis of
+.Lt BOXSTART
+above itself uses a
+.Lt BOXSTART
+call without borders and with a
+.Lt 2p
+(two point) indent.
+.QS
+.BOXSTART SHADED cornsilk OUTLINED brown INDENT 2n WEIGHT 1p
+.BOXSTART SHADED cornsilk3 INDENT 2p
+.Lt .BOXSTOP
+.BOXSTOP
+.LP
+takes no parameters.
+It closes the most recently started box at the current vertical position
+after adding its
+.Lt INDENT
+spacing.
+.BOXSTOP
+.QE
+Your
+.I groff
+documents can conditionally exercise the
+.I sboxes
+macros.
+The register
+.Lt GSBOX
+is defined if the package is loaded, and interpolates a true value if
+the
+.Lt pdf
+output device is in use.
+.LP
+.I sboxes
+furthermore hooks into the
+.I "groff ms"
+package to receive notifications when footnotes are growing, so that it
+can close boxes on a page before footnotes are printed.
+When that condition obtains,
+.I sboxes
+will close open boxes two points\**
+.FS
+This amount probably will not match the box's
+.Lt INDENT .
+.FE
+above the footnote separator and re-open them on the next page.
+.LP
+This document was produced using the following code.
+.ds FAM C
+.nr PS 11
+.nr VS 13
+.LP
+.BOXSTART SHADED white OUTLINED brown INDENT 2n WEIGHT 1p
+.nf
+\# REPLACEME
+.BOXSTOP
+.\" Local Variables:
+.\" mode: nroff
+.\" fill-column: 72
+.\" End:
+.\" vim: set filetype=groff textwidth=72: