On 30-Nov-11 20:31:22, giecr...@stegny.2a.pl wrote: > I understand that I can fill pic objects with solid fill; > but is it possible to use a pattern fill instead? > This would be useful to draw e.g. a Venn diagram. > I am unable to figure out how to do it e.g. with slanted > lines, except by calculating the line segments by hand. > I would prefer to draw them to the bounding box and have > them cropped.
A good question! Using 'pic', it is very straightforward to (for example) fill a box (or circle, etc.) with a shade of grey: box wid 2 ht 1 with .sw at (1,0) fill 0.25 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! Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 30-Nov-11 Time: 22:52:23 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
