Re[3]: Backgrounds

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:43 AM 3/25/2003 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:

>Ok, I start to see the picture: one must use MetaPost. I can
>accept that :) (even if it's somewhat clumsier, but this is no
>problem, one can write interfaces for that).

actually, it's handier once you get going; otherwise you would be limited 
to simple frames and backgrounds, simply because we would run out of 
keywords for options and/or forget to documen them; i expect to provide a 
library of backgrounds in due time

>The problem is still that I cannot separate the behaviour at the
>end of the background from the behaviour at a split. What I'm
>looking for is something like this:

guess what, this time your demands for features are fulfilled on forehand!

there is an array available

   multilocs[...]

1 = top
2 = mid
3 = bottom

shape; this is how i could handle the example in details with different 
shades per kind of frame

>Can the first effect be achieved?

as said,

Hans
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