> I am in the need of bulleted numbers, ie. a filled circle with a > number in it. Imortant to me is, that I can use such a bulleted > numer every where in floating text. But it is not necessary to have > it in a table for now. > > Three possible solutions came to mind: > a) a font with special glyphs of this kind
Some Chinese fonts have this up to 100. Normally very ugly.
> b) pic
This can't produce inline images.
> c) postscript
This works. See below.
Werner
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.\" The radius of the circle used in `ci' macro.
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.ds ci-radius 0.8m
.
.
.\" .ci <text>
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.\" Emit <text>, written in white and centered within a red circle.
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.de ci-end
..
.
.de ci
. ds ci-text \\$1\"
. nr ci-width \w'\\$1'
. nr ci-height \\n[rst]
. nr ci-depth \\n[rsb]
. nr ci-rad \\*[ci-radius]
.
. de ci-ps ci-end
ps: exec
% move to circle center
\\n[ci-rad] u
\\n[ci-height] u \\n[ci-depth] u add 2 div neg
rmoveto
gsave
% shift origin to current point temporarily
currentpoint translate
1 0 0 setrgbcolor
0 0 \\n[ci-rad] u 0 360 arc
fill
1 1 1 setrgbcolor
% move to start of text string
\\n[ci-width] u 2 div neg
\\n[ci-height] u \\n[ci-depth] u add 2 div
moveto
(\\*[ci-text]) show
grestore
. ci-end
.
\Y[ci-ps]\h'2u*\\n[ci-rad]u'
..
blah blah blah
.ci 2
blubb blubb blubb
.ps 30
.vs 36
blah blah blah
.ci 12
blubb blubb blubb
circlenumbers.pdf
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