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From: beck@gefion.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Shaded box backgrounds in (La)TeX
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Date: 22 Jun 89 01:44:13 GMT
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In article <12140@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
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>A while back I asked about getting shadow boxes in (La)Tex, ...
>Thoughts, comments, suggestions, encouragements?
>

You want to use EEPIC, a macro package which extends the LaTeX picture
environment to allow many nice things like shaded boxes.  It generates
tpic \specials which must be interpreted by the dvi driver.  There is a
version of dvips around which supports tpic \specials.

EEPIC is in fact an enhancement of EPIC, so you must load epic.sty and then
eepic.sty.  Both EPIC and EEPIC are available by FTP from sun.soe.clarkson.edu

Micah Beck
beck@cs.cornell.edu
Cornell CS Dept.