pst-fill A PSTricks package for filling and tiling areas Timothy Van Zandt∗ March 11, 2007— Version 1.00 Documentation revised March 11, 2007 Contents 1 Introduction 2 2 Package history and description of it two different modes 2 2.1 Parameters ............................... 4 3 Examples 7 3.1 Kindoftiles............................... 7 3.2 Externalgraphicfiles. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 14 3.3 Tilingofcharacters........................... 16 3.4 Otherkindsofusage .......................... 16 4 “Dynamic” tilings 17 4.1 Lewthwaite-Pickover-Truchet tiling . ... 17 4.2 Acompleteexample: thePoissonequation. 22 5 Driver file 25 6 pst-fill LATEX wrapper 26 7 Pst-Fill Package code 26 7.1 Preamble ................................ 26 7.2 Thesizeofthebox........................... 27 7.3 Definitionoftheparameters. 27 7.4 Definitionofthefillbox . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 29 7.5 Themainmacros............................ 29 7.6 ThePostScriptsubroutines . 31 7.7 Closing ................................. 35 ∗
[email protected]. (documentation by Denis Girou (
[email protected]) and Herbert Voß(
[email protected]). 1 Abstract ‘pst-fill’ is a PSTricks (13), (6), (14), (9), (7) package to draw easily various kinds of filling and tiling of areas. It is also a good example of the great power and flexibility of PSTricks, as in fact it is a very short program (it body is around 200 lines long) but nevertheless really powerful. It was written in 1994 by Timothy van Zandt but publicly available only in PSTricks 97 and without any documentation. We describe here the version 97 patch 2 of December 12, 1997, which is the original one modified by myself to manage tilings in the so-called automatic mode. This article would like to serve both of reference manual and of user’s guide.