Thanks to all for helping and for the needed metapost code. Now I seem I get the way. @Dave: Until now I have done like you say. For the first it was enough. But for now and the future it looks very better in presentations e.g.. J Many greetings Markus Von: Therion [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] Im Auftrag von Dave Clucas via Therion Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. September 2017 09:26 An: therion@speleo.sk Cc: Dave Clucas Betreff: Re: [Therion] Area "filled" (Markus Boldt) Markus, instead of going to the trouble of creating complex code to include this fill symbol in a legend box, why don't you just add a label to your map. It seems you are making it too complicated for something which will not occur often. Dave Clucas <mailto:daveclucas@icloud.com> dave.clucas@icloud.com Exploring the World - One cave at a time On 14 Sep 2017, at 08:05, therion-request@speleo.sk wrote: Re: Area "filled" (Bruce Mutton)