help with the \"ideal\" manual

Jaap Akkerhuis jaap at mcvax.UUCP
Sat Sep 7 07:57:42 AEST 1985


In article <1259 at brl-tgr.ARPA> phil at RICE.ARPA (William LeFebvre) writes:
 > HELP!!
 > 
 > I just tried printing a copy of the "ideal" manual (by Chris Van Wyck).
 > When I ran it thru ideal, it failed, claiming that it couldn't open the
 > "sector" libfile.  Further investigation shows that there are two
 > libfiles that the ideal manual references that we do not have: "sector"
 > and "segment".  Either they are not included in the standard
 > distribution or we managed to lose them somehow.  They sould be in
 > the directory "ideal/lib", but they are not.

May I refer to the same manual you want to print?
The Ideal reference manual states in section 3.3 Including files:
	... The following library files are available: arc, arrow,
	circle, dash, rect, and wavy.

Also note in the Ideal User's Manual:
	This generalization of the simple boundary statement
	is the most recent addition to ideal.
	It avoids treating circles and their sectors and segments
	as special cases, and makes opaqueing circular
	arc polygons much easier.

My guess is that v. Wijk didn't update the manual according to
this new situation, since he had the obsolete stuff lying around
anyway. So change the code for the  example.

	--jaap



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