<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That works fine for the specific case I had. Thanks.<div>Is there a way of putting in labels parallel to planes <i>other</i> than the coordinate planes?<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Zbigniew Nitecki</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Department of Mathematics</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Tufts University</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Medford, MA 02155</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">telephones:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Office<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3843</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dept.<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3234</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Dept. fax<span class="Apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-converted-tab"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>(617)627-3966</font></p><a href="http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/">http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/</a></span> </div><br><div><div>On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:23, Herbert Voss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Zbigniew Nitecki schrieb:<br><blockquote type="cite"> From Section 28.31 of Voss's book (3rd ed.), I expect the following<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">************************************************************************************<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\begin{pspicture}(-2.5,-2.0)(2.5,3.5)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\psset{xunit=2cm, yunit=2cm}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\pstThreeDSquare[fillstyle=solid, fillcolor=lightgray](0,0.5,0)(1,0,0)(0,0,1)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\ThreeDput[normal=0 1 0]{<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\rput(0.2,-0.2){$\vec{x_{0}}$}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\rput(0.25,0.45){$R$}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">}<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">\end{pspicture}<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite">What is going on? Shouldn't "normal=" specify the normal to the plane <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">containing the text?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Related question: It seemed to me that if I changed viewpoint (eg, Alpha=30) <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">without changing the normal, then again the plane of the label was off: it <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">looked as if this is in some absolute coordinate system which does not change <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">with viewpoint. Comment?<br></blockquote><br>use \pstPlanePut<br><br>\pstPlanePut[plane=xz,planecorr=normal](0.8,0.5,0.3){$\vec{x_{0}}$}<br>\pstPlanePut[plane=xz,planecorr=normal](0.3,0.5,0.7){$R$}<br><br><br>Herbert<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>