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Re: xfig, and Supoj Sutanthavibul

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From: Daniel P. Faigin
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:13
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On 11 Nov 92 14:09:32, sjameson@fergie.dnet.ge.com (Stephen M Jameson) said:

> I am using the xfig package, and have the following questions:

> 1.	Does anybody know how to get in touch with Supoj Sutanthavibul?  I
> have his name, and assume from the header to the xfig programs that he is at
> MIT, but don't know where to go from there.

According to the current documentation, Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
is the current person responsible. You might want to contact him instead.

> 2.	Does anybody know how to resolve object overlapping in xfig?  We are
> unable to figure out how xfig decides which object will be "on top" when two
> objects overlap, and it would be nice to know the rule so that we can get
> the right one to come out on top.

The easiest way to do this is to assign each object a depth (use the edit
object, if nothing else, to do this). The larger the value, the deeper it is
(e.g., 0 is the top).

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