Re: [Groff] filling object with a pattern

[Ted Harding]

On 01-Dec-11 11:59:31, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> Użytkownik (Ted Harding) napisał:
>> What is missing, which would allow your need to be filled
>> equally simply, is an attribute (say "hatched") which would
>> work similarly:
>>
>>    box wid 2 ht 1 with .sw at (1,0) hatched 45 0.05
>>
>> which would fill the blox with a hatching of slanted lines
>> at a 45-degree angle and with spacing 0.1 -- but that is
>> not available.
>>
>> So, I think, the simple answer to your question is that,
>> as things stand with 'pic', you need to do it by hand.
>>
>> However, I think it may be possible to really do it as
>> you want, but it would involve embedding some PostScript
>> code in the pic code.
>>
>> I will try to work out how this can be done, but not just now!
> 
> But embeddedPostScript will not work in xditview, will it?
> 
> Chris

That is true! (Your original mention of "bounding box" led me
to suppose that you were using PostScript).

Ted.

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Date: 01-Dec-11                                       Time: 12:21:09
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