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Re: What's arcto good for?

From Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Subject Re: What's arcto good for?
Date 2019-06-29 09:17 +0100
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On 25 Jun 2019, luser droog wrote:

> What's 'arcto' good for? It arose mysteriously after the original red book
> apparently to help make rounded corners for screen windows and boxes.
> But I could never figure out how to use it. Does anybody use it?

A glance through some code suggests that I do not; for that kind of
thing I tend to use curveto. I do notice arcto cropping up in some Xfig
diagrams converted by fig2dev though.

-- Mark

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What's arcto good for? luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-06-25 15:29 -0700
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  Re: What's arcto good for? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2019-06-29 09:17 +0100
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