shapepatch – Trans­fig patch sup­port­ing shapepar

ShapePatch is a patch against Trans­fig, which adds the ca­pa­bil­ity to ex­port XFig fig­ures to shape def­i­ni­tions for shapepar. Shapepar it­self will form a para­graph into a spec­i­fied shape, and the size of the shape is au­to­mat­i­cally ad­justed so that the given para­graph com­pletely fills the shape. ShapePatch ef­fort: one sim­ply draws the re­quired shape with XFig and then con­vert it to a shape def­i­ni­tion for shapepar, ei­ther by call­ing fig2dev man­u­ally or by choos­ing “Ex­port/Shape” in XFig (if you in­stall the ad­di­tional XFig patch).