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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:44:05 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/groff.html.node/Motion-Quanta.html b/doc/groff.html.node/Motion-Quanta.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5df1c72 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/groff.html.node/Motion-Quanta.html @@ -0,0 +1,93 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 7.0.3, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> +<!-- This manual documents GNU troff version 1.23.0. + +Copyright © 1994-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no +Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A +copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free +Documentation License". --> +<title>Motion Quanta (The GNU Troff Manual)</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Motion Quanta (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Motion Quanta (The GNU Troff Manual)"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> + +<link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="Request-Index.html" rel="index" title="Request Index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Measurements.html" rel="up" title="Measurements"> +<link href="Default-Units.html" rel="next" title="Default Units"> +<link href="Measurements.html" rel="prev" title="Measurements"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +a.copiable-link {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +span:hover a.copiable-link {visibility: visible} +strong.def-name {font-family: monospace; font-weight: bold; font-size: larger} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<div class="subsection-level-extent" id="Motion-Quanta"> +<div class="nav-panel"> +<p> +Next: <a href="Default-Units.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Default Units</a>, Previous: <a href="Measurements.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Measurements</a>, Up: <a href="Measurements.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Measurements</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Request-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<h4 class="subsection" id="Motion-Quanta-1">5.3.1 Motion Quanta</h4> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-motion-quanta"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-quanta_002c-motion"></a> + +<p>An output device’s basic unit <code class="code">u</code> is not necessarily its smallest +addressable length; <code class="code">u</code> can be smaller to avoid problems with +integer roundoff. The minimum distances that a device can work with in +the horizontal and vertical directions are termed its <em class="dfn">motion +quanta</em>. Measurements are rounded to applicable motion quanta. +Half-quantum fractions round toward zero. +</p> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-horizontal-motion-quantum-register-_0028_002eH_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-motion-quantum_002c-horizontal_002c-register-_0028_002eH_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-horizontal-resolution-register-_0028_002eH_0029"></a> +<a class="index-entry-id" id="index-resolution_002c-horizontal_002c-register-_0028_002eH_0029"></a> +<dl class="first-deffn"> +<dt class="deffn" id="index-_005cn_005b_002eH_005d"><span class="category-def">Register: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">\n[.H]</code></strong><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_005cn_005b_002eH_005d'> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002eH"></a> +</dd><dt class="deffnx def-cmd-deffn" id="index-_005cn_005b_002eV_005d"><span class="category-def">Register: </span><span><strong class="def-name"><code class="t">\n[.V]</code></strong><a class="copiable-link" href='#index-_005cn_005b_002eV_005d'> ¶</a></span></dt> +<dd><a class="index-entry-id" id="index-_002eV"></a> +<p>These read-only registers interpolate the horizontal and vertical motion +quanta, respectively, of the output device in basic units. +</p></dd></dl> + +<p>For example, we might draw short baseline rules on a terminal device as +follows. See <a class="xref" href="Drawing-Geometric-Objects.html">Drawing Geometric Objects</a>. +</p> +<div class="example"> +<div class="group"><pre class="example-preformatted">.tm \n[.H] + error→ 24 +.nf +\l'36u' 36u +\l'37u' 37u + ⇒ _ 36u + ⇒ __ 37u +</pre></div></div> + + +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |