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From: salzman@randvax.UUCP (Isaac Salzman)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: grey backgrounds in LaTeX
Message-ID: <1865@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 89 01:22:14 GMT
Reply-To: salzman@rand.org (Isaac Salzman)
Organization: RAND Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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Anyone have any brilliant ideas on how to do this? Someone here is
interested in taking a region of text (or PicTeX graphics) and putting a
grey background behind it (for figures, etc.).  An obvious method would be
to use a \special for some dvi driver, but this needs to be portable to
various printers (HP LJ+, LaserWriter) and dvi previewers (texx, xdvi,
texsun). A grey font of some sort would suffice (in fact, the current method
is to draw a bunch of periods in that region, not exactly adequate). 
LaTeX or PicTeX source would be nice, and/or some PK/GF font files (for
300dpi devices). Thanks!!

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* Isaac J. Salzman                                            ----     
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