IMPORTANT SHAPE LIBRARY INFORMATION
                                October, 2002

                         USING AN EXISTING SHAPE FILE
                        TO CREATE A CUSTOM SHAPE LIBARY
                  Copyright 2002, Novagraph, Richardson, Texas

You can create your own custom library subset from a shape library. You can
easily create a library from it that includes only the shapes that you want.
You can then load this derived library into Chartist and use it for your chart
documents.

What you need:

     1. The shape file you want to modify

     2. Chartist or Chartist-Pro

     3. A plain ASCII text editor, such as Notepad in Windows. The editor
        must NOT introduce TABS or other formatting characters into the
        document it is editing.

Procedure:

     1. Make sure the shape file is available on the same path as your
        standard shape file (SHAPES.SHP). Copy it from the
        distribution disk if necessary.

     2. Run Chartist and use the Load Shapes... command to load the
        shape file as the current shape file.

     3. Choose the Symbol Shape... command and scroll through the shape list.
        Make note of the exact names of the shapes that you want to include
        (or exclude) from your custom library.

        NOTE: TWO SHAPES (Rect and Titl-Cent) and TWO ARROWS (Clsd-2:1-F
        and Open-2:1) are required in a shape library. The program will
        not operate correctly without these items in the library.

     4. Copy the original shape file into the target custom shape library file.
         You can then edit the custom library without losing the original

     5. Use your Text Editor to remove the shape and arrow definitions that
        you do not want.

        In the library, shape definitions begin with a "$" immediately
        followed by the shape name. This is followed by several lines of
        numbers, and then a new shape definition begins. The shapes are
        defined first and appear in (mostly) alphabetical order, followed
        by the arrows. Arrow definitions begin with a "@" immediately
        preceding the Arrow names.

        The easiest way to remove a shape is to change the "$" that
        immediately precedes the shape name to a "?". This will cause
        the shape definition to be ignored when the library is loaded. This
        technique will allow you to restore a deleted shape by changing
        the "?" back to a "$" with your text editor and reloading
        the library into Chartist-Pro.
        

        For example, to remove the shape: Diam-Shad (Shadowed diamond)
        from the library, you would locate "$Diam-Shad" in the library
        and change the "$" to a "?" as shown below:

        ...
        ...
        $Diam
          2, 4,-50, 0, 0, 50, 50, 0, 0,-50, 32767
         -35,-35, 35, 35
         -50,-50, 50, 50
 ===>>  ?Diam-Shad
          19
          2, 4,-44, 6, 6, 56, 56, 6, 6,-44
          5
          2, 4,-50, 0, 0, 50, 50, 0, 0,-50, 32767
         -35,-35, 35, 35
         -50,-50, 56, 56
        $Disk-A
          2,12,-38,-50,-44,-30,-46,-10,-46, 10,-44, 30,-38, 50
                50, 50, 44, 30, 42, 10, 42,-10, 44,-30, 50,-50
          32767
         -38,-50, 38, 50
         -50,-50, 50, 50
         ...
         ...

        Shapes deleted in this way are not loaded into memory, and do not
        waste any space when you run Chartist. DO NOT DELETE Rect OR
        Titl-Cent SHAPE DEFINITIONS, OR CHARTIST WILL NOT WORK!

        Since there are fewer arrow definitions, you should not need to
        delete them. But if you must, use exactly the same technique as
        above, only change the "@" to a "?" character. YOU MUST LEAVE THE
        FIRST TWO ARROW DEFINITIONS ALONE, OR CHARTIST WILL NOT WORK!

     6. Save your new library file, and use the Load Shapes... command in
        Chartist or Chartist-Pro to make it the selected library.

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