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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Avery Andrews wrote:<BR>
>> Is there some straightforward way of getting the height, width and depth<BR>
>> of a node, either by name or the most recently created?<BR>
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>everything is done on PostScript level, which makes it difficult<BR>
>to know on TeX level what height, width depth we have.<BR>
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>Herbert<BR>
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Hmm well postscript would do - what I want to do is attach node connections to the corners of rectangles (more than one, so the rnode reference point trick won't do), as would be easy with say Emma Pease's tree-dvips. An idea that occurred to me was to scale an angle by the dimensions of the box, so that 45 would always go to the top-right corner of a rectangle. That would generalize so that it would also go to the midpoint of the top-right side of a diamond, etc. Well anyway I don't want to spend a lot of time re-learning enough postscript to do it if something like this is already available.<BR>
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- Avery<BR>
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