Christmas Cards The Unix Way - with pic and troff

Drawing Pictures The Unix Way - with pic and troff part 2

This is the 12 in a series of videos taking you from a beginner to a pro at using Troff/Groff.

This tutorial is focused on using pic to create a simple Christmas card. This will continue where "Drawing Pictures The Unix Way - with pic and troff" left off and will cover features of pic that did not make it into the first video.

Let me know what you think and if there is anything specific you would like to learn about.

Files mentioned in video: https://gist.github.com/Gavinok/f5220531ba0fddd932edf518cff61c52

Github: https://www.github.com/gavinok vimrc: https://github.com/Gavinok/dotvim Resume: https://github.com/Gavinok/Groff-resume Discord: https://discord.gg/JJk5KKU

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:05 - Show me what you do with pic 00:01:41 - Initial setup 00:02:23 - Spline 00:03:48 - for loops 00:04:30 - Variables 00:04:53 - Labeled objects 00:06:31 - with keyword 00:08:00 - Ornaments 00:08:50 - fill keyword 00:09:37 - if statements 00:10:14 - Defining macros 00:11:10 - Colors (gpic only) 00:12:31 - Drawbacks of pic colors 00:13:16 - Pass through to Troff 00:13:30 - Polygons 00:14:59 - Drawing the star 00:17:04 - Coloring polygons (neatroff) 00:17:25 - Coloring polygons (groff) 00:17:46 - Putting the star on the tree 00:18:17 - Outro ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMijdTWSUEE