<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">That particular omission was an oversight---it is a macro for writing f(x,y,z)--- but it does not affect my question.<div><div>\newcommand{\fof}[1]{\of{f}{#1}}%function f</div><div><div>\newcommand{\fofxyz}{\fof{x,y,z}}%generic function f</div></div><div><br></div><div>My problem is that when I put my code snippet inside a minimal example, surrounded only by </div><div>\begin{document} and \end{document}, it prints fine, just like the one you got.</div><div>But when the same code is inside my larger document (which is way too long to post)</div><div>the sphere overwrites the nodes (dots) and labels---unless I use \rput* instead of \rput,</div><div>in which case they are not overwritten, but the dots appear inside white boxes.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried putting the full preamble of my long document into the minimal document, </div><div>to see if there was any package conflict, but it still compiles fine. </div><div>Nonetheless in the context of the whole long document the sphere overwrites the nodes.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Zbigniew Nitecki</font></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; "><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; font-size: 12px; "><br></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; "><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-size: 12px; "><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><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/">http://www.tufts.edu/~znitecki/</a></span>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:00, Herbert Voss wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 03.08.2010 16:33, schrieb Zbigniew Nitecki:<br><blockquote type="cite">Below I will copy some code, which on its own (inside a minimal example) creates <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a perfectly good picture. However, when I incorporate it into a larger, book-length<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">document (which would be way too huge to attach here), it prints fine, except for all<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the \psPoints and related \uputs. I have not noticed this problem with other diagrams.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Can anyone speculate as to what might cause this, and how to work around it?<br></blockquote><br>such code snippets are senseless, because we do not<br>have the definition of \fofxyz. Please provide<br>_always_ working examples. Then you'd realized that<br>the definition was missing.<br><br>When delete the backslash from \fofxyz I get the<br>attached picture.<br><br>Herbert<br><br><span><x.png></span>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br>http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks<br>archive: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>