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At 03:11 PM 9/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:

>>I receieve a white gap between red thick graphics
and
>>the real fraphics of F and the gap is at the point
of
>>local minimum. This was what I wanted to overcome.
>Naturally: the pen has radius .1cm but the distance
>between the new 
>path
>and the old varies from almost .2cm at one end to
>about .14cm at the 
>other.

Well, I thought that the variation won't be so big. 

>This is unnecesarily hard work. If I understand what
>you want the
>following should work very well:
>beginfig(3);
>path p; p := makepath (H, 0, .1, 1) scaled 5cm;
>fill (reverse p)--(p shifted (.2cm*down))--cycle
>withcolor red;
>draw p; draw p shifted (.2cm*down) withcolor red;
>endfig;
Thanks, it is really cleaner and shorter. The simple
things are so hard to see.

>By the way: filling after drawing covers up 1/2 the
>line drawn.
>Drawing after filling covers up a thin strip of the
>fill color.
>I would do the second order.
In general, I also prefer drawing after filling

>The Metapost/Metafont macros that support the mfpic
>drawing package
>for TeX contain code very similar to makePath and use
>the method in
>figure 3 above to fill the space between two
>functions.
I will surely check this. Thank you once again

Ivan

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