[XeTeX] Text on a path (was : Drop-shadows with outline fontsin XeTeX ?)

[John Was]

Hi

I think PSTricks (which is automatically available in plain XeTeX) should 
allow this.  See the PSTricks manual, and some sample code at:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=&q=pstricks+tp-test.ps&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_en-GBGB380GB380&ie=UTF-8

Hope this helps.


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ross Moore" <ross.moore at mq.edu.au>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: 02 June 2011 08:03
Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Text on a path (was : Drop-shadows with outline fontsin 
XeTeX ?)


> Hi Phil,
>
> On 02/06/2011, at 4:25 PM, Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
>
>> My sincere thanks to Mojca to her suggestion for implementing
>> drop shadows in XeTeX, which I am investigating further as
>> I write.  Now I have a second problem for the same task.
>> Whilst signs 1 & 2 are linear, sign 3 requires text to be
>> typeset on a path (in practice, on two ellipses : see attachment [1]),
>> and once again I would be most grateful for any suggestions
>> as to how this can be accomplished using XeTeX.
>
> I've seen this done in PostScript, but not directly in PDF.
> Surely Tikz has a method for this ???
>
> I'm interested in good answers so that I can reply to
> a question about reproducing things like in the attached
> image, using Xy-pic. It's only the text effect that
> is not so easy.
>
>
>
>


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>>
>> Philip Taylor
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>> Note that the upper and lower text are set on two different
>> "concentric" (?conelliptic?) ellipses, such that the x-height
>> of the lower text abuts the same ellipse as the baseline of the
>> upper text.
>> <TAR-3a.pdf>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ross
>
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