Re: [Groff] Pic question

[Werner LEMBERG]

> About the most common and basic thing I ever want pic to do is to
> draw a rule (of a specified weight, in points) the full length of
> the current measure (i.e. the current line length).  How do I get
> pic to do this automatically?  In other words, how do I get pic to
> do the equivalent of \l'\n(.lu' ?

You can't.  Since pic is a preprocessor it hasn't access to the
current line length.


    Werner