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From: MMAC@vax.oxford.ac.uk (The_Edible_Dormouse)
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Subject: windows in LaTeX
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Date: 17 Jul 90 09:51:00 GMT
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Here's another little postscript 'short' to include as a \special...add it
after you after produced your final layout as it needs to be measured up. Its
effect? Draws a window (shaded box with darker shadow) over a table, area of
text etc below the \special command.

Anyone out there really clever want ot work out a way to make it automatically
scale? :-)

This is based on a routine on my local vax...all credit to OUCS as far as I
know...all blame to me of course.

%----------------------start of ps file--------------------------
% first part draws the light shaded rectangle

72 72 scale          % units are now inches instead of big points

newpath              % prepare to draw a rectangle
   -.1 -0.3 moveto   % top left corner is a little left and above origin
   0 -0.9 rlineto     % down 1.2 (depth of your box)
   5.3 0 rlineto     % right 5.5 (width of your box)
   0 0.9 rlineto      % up 1.2
closepath            % complete rectangle
gsave                % save current path
.92 setgray          % use very light shading on LaserWriter (0=black, 1=white)
fill                 % paint interior of rectangle
grestore             % restore current path
.01 setlinewidth     % thickness of borders
stroke               % paint borders
newpath
   0 -1.2 moveto     % these next lines draw the shadow of the window
   0 -0.1 rlineto    % the dimensions are in inches and are x,y ordered
   5.3 0 rlineto     % all movement commands are relative
   0 0.9 rlineto     
   -0.1 0 rlineto
   0 -0.8 rlineto
closepath
0 setgray
fill

showpage

%-----------------------end of ps file-----------------

The effect is very impressive---looks quite 'dtpish' if used sparingly.

Edi

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