----------------------------Original message---------------------------- - Gary McManus Memorial University of Newfoundland Cartographic Laboratory Department of Geography, Memorial University St. John's, Newfoundland A1B 3X9 [log in to unmask] On Fri, 31 Mar 1995, Virginia Hetrick, in sunny Calif wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > 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