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- From: ms@lehre23.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Martin Schroeder)
- Subject: Grey shaded areas with text in it -- Summary
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.173744.11587@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
- Keywords: gray, shading
- Sender: ms@lehre23 (Martin Schroeder)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lehre23
- Reply-To: l15d@alf.zfn.Uni-Bremen.de
- Organization: Universitaet Bremen
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:37:44 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- I posted the following article:
-
- |> How can I accomplish the following with TeX/Metafont:
- |> -------------------------------------------------
- |> | text text text text text text |
- |> | text text text text |
- |> | text text text text text text text text text |
- |> -------------------------------------------------
- |> Which means: normal text on gray background. The text may be any text, the background should be
- |> possible in various gray scales and rectangular (a kind of minipage with gray background).
- |>
- |> It should be TeX, NO POSTSCRIPT!
- |>
- |> I am willing to use METAFONT, but would prefer TeX-only solutions.
-
- Geoffrey Tobin (ecsgrt@luxor.latrobe.edu.au) suggested:
- |> In The METAFONTbook (1986), in Appendix H on "Hardcopy Proofs",
- |> section 2 discusses "Gray fonts". You could typeset many copies of a
- |> grey character in the shape of the rectangle. I think that Michael
- |> Wichura's PICTeX can do something similar. Unfortunately, PICTeX can
- |> be expensive of TeX's stupidly fixed-size internal memory.
- |>
- |> A second way is to use Thomas Leathrum's "mfpic" to make a custom
- |> shaded character the size of the grey rectangle. The drawback here is
- |> that "gftopk" may run out of its ridiculously limited memory.
-
- Anthony Starks (ajs%msdrl@uunet.UU.NET) suggested:
- |> The mfpic macros and graphbase MF macros can do shaded areas.
-
- And Marc Van.rey (vanrey@hippo.fido.de) suggested using PicTeX and much memory.
-
-
- The gray fonts from Knuth are for use with GFtoDVI and have just ONE grayscale.
- I have not tried mfpic or graphbase but suspect that they eat up my memory quite fast.
- So there seems to be no easy solution.
-
-
- Martin "ZDF, the final frontier. These are the voyages
- of a buerokratic cencor agency, it's continuing
- mission to destroy the hopes of their fans, to
- seek out new threats for their favourite films
- to boldly cut, where no one has cut a film before ..."
-
- ;-)
-
- --
- Martin Schr"oder, Computer Science student -=-=- University of Bremen, Germany
- Internet: l15d@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de
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