作者也是无意当中发现了Raymond大叔（没错，就是那个《大教堂和集市》的作者）写的一篇文章《Making Pictures With GNU PIC》，介绍PIC的基本使用。其中，文章中说，
“The pic language is a troff extension that makes it easy to create and alter box-and-arrow diagrams of the kind frequently used in technical papers and textbooks. ”
PIC的作者大家应该都很熟悉的吧？在小白没说出来之前，估计很少有人猜得到，没错，他就是贝尔实验室的Brain Kernihan，《C Programming Language》的作者之一，也是AWK的作者之一。
好了，其他就不扯那么多了，直接来几个例子把。所有的PIC代码需要放到.PS与.PE之间，与metapost的beginfig与endfig类似。
下面的两幅图是来至帮助文档里的例子，具有很好的学习指导作用。
实例1：
$ cat pic08.pic
.PS
define filter {box ht 0.25 rad 0.125}
lineht = 0.25;
Top: [
right;
box "\fBms\fR" "sources";
move;
box "\fBHTML\fR" "sources";
move;
box "\fBlinuxdoc-sgml\fP" "sources" wid 1.5;
move;
box "\fBTexinfo\fP" "sources";
line down from 1st box .s lineht;
A: line down;
line down from 2nd box .s; filter "\fBhtml2ms\fP";
B: line down;
line down from 3rd box .s; filter "\fBformat\fP";
C: line down;
line down from 4th box .s; filter "\fBtexi2roff\fP";
D: line down;
]
move down 1 from last [] .s;
Anchor: box wid 1 ht 0.75 "\fBms\fR" "intermediate" "form";
arrow from Top.A.end to Anchor.nw;
arrow from Top.B.end to 1/3 of the way between Anchor.nw and Anchor.ne;
arrow from Top.C.end to 2/3 of the way between Anchor.nw and Anchor.ne;
arrow from Top.D.end to Anchor.ne
{
# PostScript column
move to Anchor .sw;
line down left then down ->;
filter "\fBpic\fP";
arrow;
filter "\fBeqn\fP";
arrow;
filter "\fBtbl\fP";
arrow;
filter "\fBgroff\fP";
arrow;
box "PostScript";
# HTML column
move to Anchor .se;
line down right then down ->;
A: filter dotted "\fBpic2img\fP";
arrow;
B: filter dotted "\fBeqn2html\fP";
arrow;
C: filter dotted "\fBtbl2html\fP";
arrow;
filter "\fBms2html\fP";
arrow;
box "HTML";
# Nonexistence caption
box dashed wid 1 at B + (2,0) "These tools" "don’t yet exist";
line chop 0 chop 0.1 dashed from last box .nw to A.e ->;
line chop 0 chop 0.1 dashed from last box .w to B.e ->;
line chop 0 chop 0.1 dashed from last box .sw to C.e ->;
}
.PE上面的代码如何编译呢？
$ pic pic08.pic |groff |ps2eps > pic08.eps $ epstopdf pic08.eps $ evince pic08.pdf
注意：小白的电脑里已经安装了TeXLive套件，所以上述程序都已经具备。所以，如果你的PC上没有相应的工具，请自行安装之。
效果图为：
实例2：
$ cat box01.pic
.PS
define ndblock {
box wid boxwid/2 ht boxht/2
down; box same with .t at bottom of last box; box same
}
boxht = .2; boxwid = .3; circlerad = .3; dx = 0.05
down; box; box; box; box ht 3*boxht "." "." "."
L: box; box; box invis wid 2*boxwid "hashtab:" with .e at 1st box .w
right
Start: box wid .5 with .sw at 1st box.ne + (.4,.2) "..."
N1: box wid .2 "n1"; D1: box wid .3 "d1"
N3: box wid .4 "n3"; D3: box wid .3 "d3"
box wid .4 "..."
N2: box wid .5 "n2"; D2: box wid .2 "d2"
arrow right from 2nd box
ndblock
spline -> right .2 from 3rd last box then to N1.sw + (dx,0)
spline -> right .3 from 2nd last box then to D1.sw + (dx,0)
arrow right from last box
ndblock
spline -> right .2 from 3rd last box to N2.sw-(dx,.2) to N2.sw+(dx,0)
spline -> right .3 from 2nd last box to D2.sw-(dx,.2) to D2.sw+(dx,0)
arrow right 2*linewid from L
ndblock
spline -> right .2 from 3rd last box to N3.sw + (dx,0)
spline -> right .3 from 2nd last box to D3.sw + (dx,0)
circlerad = .3
circle invis "ndblock" at last box.e + (1.2,.2)
arrow dashed from last circle.w to last box chop 0 chop .3
box invis wid 2*boxwid "ndtable:" with .e at Start.w
.PE效果图为：
小白利用两个午休的时间，大致看完了PIC的帮助文档，不是很难，多练习几个小例子，基本可以掌握其用法。自己也绘制了以下几幅图形，仅供有需要的网友参考，一副是awk的工作流程图，一副是在sed的工作流程图，由于PIC暂不支持中文，所以，这里使用的E文。
实例1：
$ cat SedWorkflow.pic .PS A: box ht 0.8 rad 0.08 "Line 1" "Line 2" "Line 3" "Line 4" "..." B: box width 1.8 "\fBRead\fP a line into the" "pattern space" with .nw at A.ne + (0.5,0) C: box width 1.8 "\fBExecute\fP given sed commands" "on the pattern space" at B - (0,0.8) D: box width 1.8 "\fBPrint\fP the pattern space" "and empty it" at C - (0,0.8) E: box width 1.8 "\fBRepeat\fP for the next line until" "end of the input file" at D - (0,0.8) F: box width 0.5 ht 0.35 rad 0.05 "Line 1" with .w at B.e + (0.35,0) G: circle "Output" with .w at D.e + (0.35,0) L1: line chop 0.01 chop 0.9 from 1st box at 1/3 <A.e,A.ne> to B -> L2: line down from B to C -> chop L3: arrow down from C to D chop L4: arrow down from D to E chop L5: line dashed from B.e to F.w -> L6: line dashed from C.e to F.w -> L7: line dashed from D.e to G.w -> L8: line down 2.85 from L1 .center L9: line right from L8.end to E.s - (0,0.2) L10: line from E.s to L9.end .PE
图形效果为：
实例2：
$ cat awk_workflow.pic .PS A: box ht 0.8 rad 0.08 "Line 1" "Line 2" "Line 3" "Line 4" "..." INFILE: "\fBInput file\fP" with .n at A.s - (0,0.15) B: box width 1.8 "Read a Line" with .nw at A.ne + (0.5,0) C: box width 1.8 "Execute awk commands" "in the \fBbody\fP block on the line" at B - (0,0.8) D: box width 1.8 "\fBRepeat\fP for the next line until" "end of the input file" at C - (0,0.8) E: box width 1.8 rad 0.1 "Execute awk commands in" "the \fBEND\fP Block" at D - (0,0.8) F: box width 1.8 "Execute awk commands in" "the \fBBEGIN\fP Block" at B + (0,0.8) L1: line chop 0.01 chop 0.9 from 1st box at 1/3 <A.e,A.ne> to B -> L2: line down from B to C -> chop L3: arrow down from C to D chop L4: arrow down from D to E chop L5: line down 2 from L1 .center L6: line right from L5.end to L4.center L7: arrow from F.s to B.n .PE
图形效果为：
好了，以上是小白的练习。更多的源文件小白也共享出来吧，感兴趣的网友可以看一看。
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