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Diffstat (limited to 'doc/user/bgr_text')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/user/bgr_text | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/user/bgr_text b/doc/user/bgr_text index 2c56022..286698a 100644 --- a/doc/user/bgr_text +++ b/doc/user/bgr_text @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ texture.sym @Index { @Code "@Texture" symbol } and @Code "@Colour" do. It causes the object to its right to be printed in a texture specified by the object to its left: -@ID @Code "striped @Texture 50p @Font ABC" +@ID @Code "striped @Texture 40p @Font ABC" produces @FootNote { If you can't see the result here, or if you can see it but without @@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ texture, then the fault is probably in your PostScript viewer. The PostScript viewer used by the author (a 1997 version of @I { gv }) shows a blank space here and throughout this section wherever a texture is supposed to appear, but when printed on his printer -the textures appear correctly. +the textures appear correctly. Some viewers may fail altogether when +given a PostScript file with textures. In that case, run your document +again using @OneCol @I { lout -t } instead of @I { lout }. This will +cause Lout to ignore all textures and print everything in solid colour. } -@CD striped @Texture 50p @Font ABC +@CD striped @Texture 40p @Font ABC The object to the right of @Code "@Texture" may be arbitrary as usual. @PP # Textures are harder to specify than colours, and only a few @@ -39,7 +42,7 @@ striped @Texture angle { 45d } hshift { 1p } vshift { 3p } -50p @Font ABC +40p @Font ABC } produces @CD striped @Texture @@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ produces angle { 45d } hshift { 1p } vshift { 3p } -50p @Font ABC +40p @Font ABC with the texture scaled by a factor of 2, printed at an angle of 45 degrees, and shifted one point horizontally and three points vertically. The @Code scale option causes equal scaling in the |