Re: Porrectus (continued)

[Rune Zedeler]

Den 02-Jan-02 skrev Jan Nieuwenhuizen:

JN> Until there's a dvips fix, there are two things you can do: hack
JN> something up in metafont, eg, add another (short) ledger line (or
JN> two).  Or maybe, introduce a 'blotfilledbox' into tex.scm that uses
JN> the PostScript "draw_box" routine; and use that for ledger lines.  It
JN> may be that the rounding problem is not visible if the x-alignment of
JN> ledger lines proves to be not as critical as with stems.

Well, a third "thing" to do (ugly, I know, but with the dvips bug you cannot
avoid ugly hacks) would be to let filledbox combine a nice rounded box out of
two \vrule's (forming a cross) and four blots (in the corners of the cross).

-Rune