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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Herbert Voss wrote:<BR>
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>\documentclass{article}<BR>
>\usepackage{pstricks}<BR>
>\SpecialCoor<BR>
>\begin{document}<BR>
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>\qdisk(0,0){2pt}\uput[90](0,0){foo}\uput[(0,-1)](0,0){bar}<BR>
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>\end{document}<BR>
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Thanks; this handles the angle fine, but insofar as I have managed to understand the docs, the distance would still be specified radially, in something like:<BR>
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\uput{5em}[(10,10)](0,0){fub}<BR>
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The context of this is for use in connection with linguistics structure-formatting packages (specifically, emulating Emma Pease's<BR>
tree-dvips.sty), where a node or something gets plonked down in some position, and you want to position a point with respect to it, say 1ex in the vertical directino and 2ex horizontally. A special coordinate addition scheme,<BR>
like say (a+(1,2)), where a is a label, would be perfect (unit previously set to 1ex).<BR>
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- Avery Andrews<BR>
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