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From: kalita@linc.cis.upenn.edu (J Kolita)
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Subject: latex: filled boxes of arbitrary size with specifiable gray levels
Keywords: latex, tex, postscript
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Date: 13 Mar 89 16:52:14 GMT
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Hi everybody!

I am wondering if someone has written some postscript
macros which can be called from tex/latex using \special
in order to include a heading, or a paragraph
of text in a box (with boundaries) such that
the box can be filled to a specified gray level.
For example, I want to have following kinds of boxes:

       ---------------------------------
      |  My heading in a filled box     |
       ---------------------------------

or,

      -----------------------------
      |  A paragraph of text which |
      |I want to be surrounded by  |
      |a box filled to a certain   |
      |level of grayness. I don't  |
      |want to have to specify the |
      |size of the box. I would    |
      |like postscript/latex/tex   |
      |to figure out the size of   |
      |the box depending on the    |
      |amount of text, the point   |
      |size, textwidth etc.        |
      ------------------------------

Also, it would be great if one could have boxes with rounded corners,
and reverse video (i.e. unfilled/outlined letters in a filled box).

Please send me a message if you have any macros like this.
I would appreciate getting a copy of such macros if you have any.
Thanks a lot!

Jugal Kalita (kalita@linc.cis.upenn.edu)