On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:04:17PM +0100, Ted Harding wrote: > Yes, you can -- use 'shaded "white"' as in: > (...) > > So, to answer your description (if I have understood correctly, > i.e. A is the top one and should overlay B which should overlay C) > you would need to change the signs of the relative positions, > and the reference point to "w" instead of "e": > > .PS > A:box wid 0.7i ht 1i > B:box wid 0.7i ht 1i at (A.w.x+0.1i, A.w.y+0.1i) shaded "white" > C:box wid 0.7i ht 1i at (B.w.x+0.1i, B.w.y+0.1i) shaded "white" > .PE
That's perfect! > > Since "white" is at one end of the range of greys given by 'fill x', > where x is a number between 0 (white) and 1 (black), you can also > use this (and its simpler for your case): > (...) > > The use of 'shaded', however, gives you the option of useing other > colours, not just greys. > > Hoping this helps, Absolutely! Thank you! Is there a complete reference for pic somewhere? The most extensive text on pic I found so far is a chapter of "Unix Text Processing" by Dougherty and O'Reilly, but it doesn't seem to be extensive. J.
