Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.tele2net.at!news.panservice.it!feed.xsnews.nl!border03.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder02.ams.xsnews.nl!feeder03.ams.xsnews.nl!frontend-F10-12.ams.news.kpn.nl From: Cecil Westerhof Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Separator graphics Organization: Decebal Computing References: <87a9ffxpav.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> X-Face: "(y8cC@tg_12{">GF'UXTW]FHI2wMiZNrnf'1EFQ&O#$m:f#O7+7}kR,v+Pti8=Vi/Z"g^?b"E X-Homepage: http://www.decebal.nl/ Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:52:36 +0100 Message-ID: <87vby2osaj.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VZ9NBqCNC43CRNRzB9UrGYrWdnI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.171.42.144 X-Trace: 1388707152 news.kpn.nl 31491 77.171.42.144@kpn/77.171.42.144:60530 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.postscript:1760 Op Thursday 2 Jan 2014 21:32 CET schreef Rod Dorman: > In article <87a9ffxpav.fsf@Equus.Decebal.nl>, > Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> In medieval text you often saw elaborate ‘graphics’ between >> paragraphs. Is there a way to do something like this with >> postscript? > > Perhaps I'm not understanding the question but... > > Of course there is, just render whatever graphic image you want > whereever you want it. I was not clear with what I mend I am afraid. There where some standard symbols used. (Mostly with a lot of loops.) I was wondering if there was something for this in postscript. One type used where fleurons. Asterism is also used, but not very appealing. It can also be called ornamental symbol. Sometimes lozenge are used. I found some examples at: http://www.clker.com/clipart-3196.html -- Cecil Westerhof Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof