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From: rauletta@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Richard J. Auletta)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Shaded Boxes in PIC
Message-ID: <583@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 16:30:03 GMT
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Reply-To: rauletta@gmuvax2.UUCP (Richard J. Auletta)
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In article <1989Nov16.144956.9559@pcrat.uucp> rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>In article <1989Nov15.171726.28275@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
>>>    > I would like to know how to shade a box or other closed form
>>>    > in pic.

I would suggest using a full-feature graphics editor that supports
postscript and then incorporating the postscript into the your
troff. Of course this assumes access to a postscript printer, but
if you had a graphics editor that will generate HP Laser Jet
files the same procedure might be workable.

I use pic, xfig, idraw (a macdraw for X11) and postscript to
create the figures I need. I find none of these do everything
I want in one package. An example is subscripts. In pic and
xfig I can include equations, in idraw this seems impossible.
In idraw I can rotate text through an arbitrary angle, even
mirror-imaged, not likely any time soon in pic/troff.
For seals with circular text I write the postscript directly and
for electric circuits I have a set of pic macros that 
do schematics....I suppose what I'm saying is use the right
tool for the job!

--R J Auletta