<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks to both Herbert and Juergen. I see now that some of my confusion came from being a bit sloppy with details. It seems the best way to create the picture I want is something like<div><br></div><div>\begin{pspicture}(-3.5,-3)(3.5,3.5)</div><div><div>\pscustom[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=lightgray, </div><div> linewidth=2pt]{</div><div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\psarc(0,0){2}{0}{360}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>\psarcn[liftpen=2](0,0){1}{360}{0}</div><div> }</div><div>%</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarc[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){2}{20}{100}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarc[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){2}{100}{180}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarc[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){2}{180}{260}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarc[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){2}{260}{340}</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarcn[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){1}{340}{260}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarcn[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){1}{260}{180}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarcn[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){1}{180}{100}</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>\psarcn[linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2](0,0){1}{100}{20}</div><div>\end{pspicture}</div></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dept. fax<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3966</font></p><a href="http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/">http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/</a></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jan 2, 2009, at 15:15, Herbert Voss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Zbigniew Nitecki schrieb:<br><blockquote type="cite">I wanted to draw an annulus, filled in light gray, with arrows along the edges.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The code below gives more-or-less what I want (although I am not sure how to get <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rid of the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gaps in the circles):<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">But I wonder if there is a way of filling the annulus using<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a single \pscustom command. The following code gives the second picture below: <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the main problem is the small bit of filled-in area inside the "hole", another <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">is that the lines print thin, and the arrows are cut in half. (Also, I needed <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to leave off the last arrow because otherwise I got an even worse picture):<br></blockquote><br>the arrows are not part of the path, the reason why<br>they are not seen in this case.<br><br>\begin{pspicture}(-3.5,-3)(3.5,3.5)<br>\pscustom[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=lightgray,<br> linewidth=2pt, arrows=->, arrowscale=2]{<br>\psarc[](0,0){2}{20}{100}<br>\psarc(0,0){2}{100}{180}<br>\psarc(0,0){2}{180}{260}<br>\psarc(0,0){2}{260}{340}<br>\psarc[arrows=-](0,0){2}{340}{20}<br>%<br>\psarcn[liftpen=2](0,0){1}{340}{260}<br>\psarcn(0,0){1}{260}{180}<br>\psarcn(0,0){1}{180}{100}<br>\psarcn(0,0){1}{100}{20}<br>\psarcn[arrows=-](0,0){1}{20}{260}<br>\psarc[arrows=-,linestyle=none](0,0){1}{260}{340}}<br>\end{pspicture}<br><br>Herbert<br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>