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- From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
- Subject: Re: xfig, and Supoj Sutanthavibul
- Date: 19 Nov 92 08:13:12
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- In-reply-to: sjameson@fergie.dnet.ge.com's message of 11 Nov 92 14:09:32
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- On 11 Nov 92 14:09:32, sjameson@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Stephen M Jameson) said:
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- > I am using the xfig package, and have the following questions:
-
- > 1. Does anybody know how to get in touch with Supoj Sutanthavibul? I
- > have his name, and assume from the header to the xfig programs that he is at
- > MIT, but don't know where to go from there.
-
- According to the current documentation, Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
- is the current person responsible. You might want to contact him instead.
-
- > 2. Does anybody know how to resolve object overlapping in xfig? We are
- > unable to figure out how xfig decides which object will be "on top" when two
- > objects overlap, and it would be nice to know the rule so that we can get
- > the right one to come out on top.
-
- The easiest way to do this is to assign each object a depth (use the edit
- object, if nothing else, to do this). The larger the value, the deeper it is
- (e.g., 0 is the top).
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