Re: loose plan (was Re: K&R C)

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:

>On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:26 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>>>  fillcurves	   use fill style for filledcurves (cgm gd pdf post svg)
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>>In the same category of a few of the above patches, someone (don't
>>remember who) had done some work to integrate gray scale filled
>>curve-like plots into PostScript.  That looked pretty nice, but I wonder
>>if PostScript might be the only driver to easily support such a feature.
>>    
>>
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>If I understand your description correctly, that is supported by the
>above patch:
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>plot <whatever> using filledcurve linetype -1 fillstyle solid <greylevel>
>

Ah, good.

>But maybe you are thinking of the request for shaded 
>areas in the background?  That should be possible to implement
>for any driver that supports filled rectangles, but I don't recall
>any suggestions at all as to what sort of syntax would be used
>to request such a plot.
>

That's correct.  Searching back email, Justace Clutter gave an example. 
 I see there is no patch for this, only the example.

Dan