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From: dhosek@cbrown.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: Text going round in circles?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 07:17:28 GMT
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In article <1991Mar21.205018.28277@hoss.unl.edu>, leo@hoss.unl.edu (Leo Chouinard) writes:
> I'm interested in finding out what packages for MS-DOS can put characters 
> at various angles and positions, so that for example you can create a logo
> with characters in a semicircle.  Are there desktop publishing packages
> which do this directly, or in order to do this are some graphics programs
> more appropriate?

TeX and MF (there are nearly a dozen PD and commercial
versions--see [anonymous.tex.site-info]tex-for-ibm-pc.txt on
ymir.claremont.edu for capsule summaries) can handle this. There
is an article in TUGboat 11#2 (or 11#1, I forget which) detailing
this.

For information about the TeX Users Group and TUGboat, contact
  TeX Users Group
  P.O. Box 9506
  Providence, RI 02940-9506
  401-751-7760
  tug@math.ams.com

-dh

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