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CIP(9.1) CIP(9.1) NAME cip - draw pictures for typesetting SYNOPSIS cip DESCRIPTION Cip prepares or modifies pic(1) descriptions, which may subsequently be typeset. It provides a palette of shapes: box, circle, ellipse, line, arc, spline, and text. Button 1 selects shapes from the palette or the screen. Button 2 places or redraws shapes. Button 3 controls menus. File names and text strings are entered from the keyboard. Keyboard input always ends with a newline. A current file name is remembered and offered for file operations; backspace over it to substitute a new name, or type newline to accept it. The menu item allows a box to be swept, collecting all contained shapes into a group. Groups are selected as whole. When a group is selected, a special menu appears. Item dissolves the group; reflects about a horizontal midline; after button 2 places copies at the cursor. Item confines activity to the group. Changes are reflected in all copies of the group. To leave the group, click button 1 at SEE ALSO pic(1), ped(9.1) Sally A. Browning, `Cip User's Manual: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words', this manual, Volume 2 BUGS Cip cannot handle arbitrary pic programs, just programs in the style that it produces. CIP(9.1)