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1.1 root 1: .TH CIP 1
2: .CT 1 writing_troff graphics
3: .SH NAME
4: cip \- draw pictures for typesetting
5: .SH SYNOPSIS
6: .B cip
7: .SH DESCRIPTION
8: .I Cip
9: prepares or modifies
10: .IR pic (1)
11: descriptions, which may subsequently be typeset.
12: It provides a pallette of
13: shapes: box, circle, ellipse, line, arc, spline, and text.
14: Button 1 selects shapes from the pallette or the screen.
15: Button 2 places or redraws
16: .RL ( edit ,
17: .LR move )
18: shapes.
19: Button 3 controls menus.
20: .PP
21: The keyboard is used for typing text
22: strings and file names.
23: Keyboard input always ends with a newline.
24: A current file name is remembered and offered for
25: file operations; backspace over it to substitute
26: a new name, or type newline to accept it.
27: .PP
28: The
29: .L define macro
30: menu item allows a box to be swept, collecting all contained shapes
31: into a group.
32: Groups are selected as whole.
33: When a group is selected, a special menu appears.
34: Item
35: .L separate
36: dissolves the group;
37: .L reflect x
38: reflects about a horizontal midline; after
39: .L copy
40: button 2 places copies at the cursor.
41: Item
42: .L edit
43: confines activity to the group.
44: Changes are reflected in all copies of the group.
45: To leave the group, click button 1 at
46: .LR "edit depth" .
47: .SH SEE ALSO
48: .IR pic (1),
49: .br
50: Sally A. Browning,
51: .I
52: Cip User's Manual: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.
53: .SH BUGS
54: .I Cip
55: cannot handle arbitrary
56: .I pic
57: programs, just programs in the style
58: that it produces.
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