[Xastir] Translucent polygon shapefiles now available

[Tom Russo]

Last night I committed a small change to dbfawk-enabled shapefile drawing
that allows one to specify that a filled polygon be stippled with one of the
three stipple patterns xastir uses (13%, 25%, or 50%).  This allows raster
layers to show through filled, stippled polygons, and in some cases looks 
rather nice.  

To use it, include "fill_style=2" and fill_stipple=0, 1, or 2 in dbfawk rules.

As an example of how this is done, I've modified my dbfawk file for the
national atlas shapefile map of streams and waterbodies.  The shapefile 
itself is available from www.nationalatlas.gov: click "Atlas Maps" and then
"Map Layers Data Warehouse", and scroll down to find "Streams and Waterbodies."
The dbfawk file is available from http://www.swcp.com/~russo/shape_web/
When both are in a a map directory and the map is chosen, lakes, bays, and
the few rivers that are represented as polygons will appear filled with 50%
stipple pattern.  IMHO they look nicer than when they're solid-filled.

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Tom Russo    KM5VY     SAR502  DM64ux         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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