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From: vojta@powdermilk.berkeley.edu (Paul Vojta)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: xdvi using gray scale?
Message-ID: <1991Feb9.025032.4582@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 91 02:50:32 GMT
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In article <TML.91Feb8131900@nyyti.tik.vtt.fi> tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
>Has anybody modified xdvi to use grayscale (on displays that support
>it) for "partially filled" pixels?  Would this make 10 pt shrink4 text
>easier to read?

To my knowledge, nobody has modified xdvi as you described.  I understand,
though, that dvipage does this.  I hear that it is quite attractive, although
I myself have not seen it.

With xdvi, why not use shrink3, and use the margin feature?

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu