[texhax] vertical lines in pstricks
Herbert Voss
LaTeX at zedat.fu-berlin.de
Wed Aug 16 00:08:37 CEST 2006
Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
> A fillstyle vlines or hlines creates lines making a 45 degree angle with
> the horizontal (or vertical); so to create truly vertical lines as a
> fillstye, I tried adding hatchangle=0 (for vlines) or hatchangle=90 (for
> hlines). Either way, I get lines spaced so close together that, while
> they look OK on the screen, when printed they create the same effect as
> a fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=black.
> So I tried also adding hatchsep=[various amounts: according to the
> Latex Graphics Companion, the default is 4pt, so I tried 8, 18, and
> 50]. This had no visible effect on the outcome. Any suggestions on how
> to get more spaced-out vertical lines for a fill?
then you didn't view the PostScript output. PSTricks -> PostScriptTricks.
see also http://PSTricks.tug.org
Herbert
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