\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[noheadfoot, a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{shapepar}
\input{chessboard.shape}
\input{canada.shape}
\input{music.shape}
\input{moon.shape}
\input{face.shape}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\newcommand{\sometext}
{ This file describes how to install and use the shapepar output driver for the
XWindow drawing program XFig. The current version is 3.2.4-shape-1. The naming
scheme is first the XFig/Transfig version, appended shape, then the version of
the patch. 
ShapePatch is a patch against Transfig, which adds the capability to export
XFig figures to shape definitions for shapepar. Shapepar itself is a TeX-Macro
by Donald Arsenau that allows to form a paragraph into a given shape, where the
size of the shape is automatically adjusted so that the given paragraph
completely fills the shape. There are some predefined shapes, like e.g. a heart.
So you can form any paragraph into the form of a heart by putting
inside your document. It is of course possible, to define such shapes by
oneself, but it involves that you resolve your shape into a polygon and enter
the coordinates into your TeX-Document. This is quite crucial, and this is the
point where ShapePatch comes up: It allows you to simply draw the shape you want
with XFig, and then convert it to such a shape definition either by calling
fig2dev manually, or by choosing "Export/Shape" in XFig (if you install the
additional XFig patch). 
ShapePatch is distributed as a patch against transfig and xfig. So first get the
source code of transfig and xfig, and untar them. Then copy the transfig patch
into the transfig source directory, and the xfig patch respectively into the
xfig source tree. Then type
Do this before you make any changes to the Imakefiles! The patches should apply
cleanly, you can then proceed as usual to compile and install XFig and transfig
(please refer to the appropriate documentation). Perhaps you have to install
additional libraries and/or change the Imakefiles in order to compile.
ShapePatch itself doesn't require any additional libraries. So before reporting
compile errors, please make sure that the clean unpatched versions of transfig
and XFig compile and work. }


\facepar{\sometext}
\newpage
\musicpar{\sometext}
\newpage
\moonpar{\sometext}
\newpage
% if the following to shapes dont work
% you probably have the old shapepar<2.0 installed
\canadaflagpar{\sometext}
\newpage
\chesspar{\sometext}

\end{document}

