[texhax] shapepar

[dch]

Hi Phil et al.

Thanks to your help and E. Krishnan's I finally got this all working on 
my system.

There is only one slight 'problem' in that when I make a shape up in 
Xfig, I have to save the Xfig file, edit it by hand to add comments in 
the form of '# +' and '# -', reopen it in Xfig and then export it as a 
"shape".  Seems a bit clunky - perhaps I'm not doing something I could do.

Thanks,
David.

Philip G. Ratcliffe wrote:

>>>>I'm trying to get shapepar working, and have just tried the the
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>>>sufficient), it's obvious why: as the manual explains, the syntax is
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>>>\shapepar{\candle} some long text that will be shaped into your
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>>foo-shape
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>>>where \candle is defined in the file candle.def (my up-to-date MiKTeX
>>>installation does not have a canada.shape but a number of .def files).
>>>
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>>OK - I tried that and get a different error:
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>>(./canada.aux)
>>! Undefined control sequence.
>><argument> \canada
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>>l.6 \shapepar{\canada}
>>                      some long text that will be shaped into
>>your foo-shape
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>OK, look inside canada.shape and see just what command is defined there -
>use that.
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>>>>I'm not very clever with TeX, so any tips will be highly appreciated.
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>What I really would suggest (if you know how to) is to download the
>up-to-date version from CTAN and install it manually over (and removing)
>your old package -   then we'll at least be talking about the same files.  I
>assume you're using Linux so I can't help you with installation; it's so
>long since I played around with it.
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>>>P.S. My system gives me the following LaTeX package message:
>>>    Package: shapepar 2002/12/30 v 2.0, Shaped paragraphs
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>>How did you generate that?
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>The package (like most) writes this to your log file whenever it's loaded.
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>Cheers,  Phil Ratcliffe
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