shade­box – Shade boxes us­ing PostScript spe­cials

The file as pre­sented may be run to pro­duce an ex­am­ple of the out­put that may be ex­pected: text may be en­closed in rect­an­gu­lar or in rounded-cor­ner (what LaTeX calls ‘oval’) boxes, and the back­ground of the box is shaded.
The tech­nique of us­ing PostScript spe­cials (thus ty­ing use to dvips-based pro­duc­tion) con­trasts with the spe­cially-con­cocted fonts used by the shade pack­age.