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Gary McManus
Memorial University of Newfoundland Cartographic Laboratory
Department of Geography, Memorial University
St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X9
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On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, Virginia Hetrick, in sunny Calif wrote:
 
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> I usually make the line (whatever it is), color it black, duplicate
> it  and make the duplicate one printer unit (.003 on most laser
> printers) narrower and white.  Then I group those two lines which
> gives me the effect of a railroad pen.  Next I do the trick with
> short lines.  Instead of using a font, I make a line of the width
> and length I want.  Then I duplicate it about a jillion times and
> place each individual piece wherever I want it on the grouped lines.
 
How do you get the ticks evenly spaced?
 
> I wasn't too satisfied with the way lower case els worked because
> they tended to run into each other going around a curve on the line.
 
It could be, if the ticks run together, that they are too long or too close
together.  I usually try not to make the RR look like a surgeons incision
 
...gary