<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><div><span>Thanks Jean for responding.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>1. Why does \SpecialCoor break the compatibility in your case where you have PostScript expression in your old files? In my opinion, \SpecialCoor will enable PostScript expression in our files so what is wrong?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial,
'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>4. The introduction to !!CP syntax is available in pst-news13.pdf. You can locate this file by typing "texdoc pst-news13" (of course excluding the quotes) from your terminal or DOS prompt or whatever.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Thank you.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>best regards,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>The Last Error</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>(http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356)</span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue',
Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, February 17, 2014 6:01 PM, "pstricks-request@tug.org" <pstricks-request@tug.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Send PSTricks mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:pstricks@tug.org" href="mailto:pstricks@tug.org">pstricks@tug.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks" target="_blank">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks</a><br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:pstricks-request@tug.org" href="mailto:pstricks-request@tug.org">pstricks-request@tug.org</a><br><br>You can reach the
person managing the list at<br> <a ymailto="mailto:pstricks-owner@tug.org" href="mailto:pstricks-owner@tug.org">pstricks-owner@tug.org</a><br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of PSTricks digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Feature request and suggestion (Donut E. Knot)<br> 2. Re: Feature request and suggestion (Jean-C?me Charpentier)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 04:47:39 -0800<br>From: "Donut E. Knot" <<a ymailto="mailto:the.counterterrorist@yahoo.com" href="mailto:the.counterterrorist@yahoo.com">the.counterterrorist@yahoo.com</a>><br>To: PSTricks <<a ymailto="mailto:pstricks@tug.org" href="mailto:pstricks@tug.org">pstricks@tug.org</a>><br>Subject: [pstricks] Feature request and suggestion<br>Message-ID:<br> <<a
ymailto="mailto:1392554859.81063.YahooMailNeo@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com" href="mailto:1392554859.81063.YahooMailNeo@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com">1392554859.81063.YahooMailNeo@web162603.mail.bf1.yahoo.com</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>Dear folks,<br><br>I have 3 ideas, probably they are good for us.<br><br>1. In this decade computers??with good performance?become cheaper and cheaper, so I think enabling \SpecialCoor by default will not be an issue. It will not break compatibility as well. What do you think?<br><br>2. Why doesn't pstricks.sty load indispensable multido by default?<br><br>3. \psrline should be moved to pstricks.sty.<br><br>4. !!CP should be deprecated because the syntax?with two exclamation marks?is a bit inconsistent and abnormal. ?I suggest the following.<br>\makeatletter<br><br>\pstVerb<br>{<br>/CPxy {CP \<a ymailto="mailto:tx@UserCoor" href="mailto:tx@UserCoor">tx@UserCoor</a>} def<br>/CPx {CPxy
pop} def<br>/CPy {CPxy exch pop} def<br>}<br>\makeatother<br><br><br>Thank you for your consideration and I am sorry if my suggestion sounds offensive.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>The Last Error<br>(<a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356" target="_blank">http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/19356</a>)<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/attachments/20140216/c2bef2a2/attachment-0001.html" target="_blank">http://tug.org/pipermail/pstricks/attachments/20140216/c2bef2a2/attachment-0001.html</a>><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Message: 2<br>Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 15:34:24 +0100<br>From: Jean-C?me Charpentier <<a ymailto="mailto:jean-come.charpentier@wanadoo.fr" href="mailto:jean-come.charpentier@wanadoo.fr">jean-come.charpentier@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>To: <<a ymailto="mailto:pstricks@tug.org"
href="mailto:pstricks@tug.org">pstricks@tug.org</a>><br>Subject: Re: [pstricks] Feature request and suggestion<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:5300CC70.7090408@wanadoo.fr" href="mailto:5300CC70.7090408@wanadoo.fr">5300CC70.7090408@wanadoo.fr</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed<br><br>Le 16/02/2014 13:47, Donut E. Knot a ?crit :<br>> Dear folks,<br>><br>> I have 3 ideas, probably they are good for us.<br>><br>> 1. In this decade computers with good performance become cheaper and<br>> cheaper, so I think enabling \SpecialCoor by default will not be an<br>> issue. It will not break compatibility as well. What do you think?<br><br> It will break compatibility and it will be horrible for me (and some <br>other people). Please Herbert, don't change that! :-)<br> If you change this behaviour, I have to recode all my files which use <br>PostScript expression... and I will be not
very happy.<br><br>> 2. Why doesn't pstricks.sty load indispensable multido by default?<br><br> It is not as indispensable as you think but your question is more <br>acceptable that the first one. Do you know about pst-all? It loads <br>multido (amongs other pstricks packages).<br><br>> 3. \psrline should be moved to pstricks.sty.<br><br> I don't know what decide Herbert to move something from pstricks-add <br>to pstricks (.tex, not .sty) but it's not a good idea to move things too <br>quickly. Remember that people haven't the last package version and then <br>could have compatibility problems.<br><br>> 4. !!CP should be deprecated because the syntax with two exclamation<br>> marks is a bit inconsistent and abnormal. I suggest the following.<br>> \makeatletter<br>> \pstVerb<br>> {<br>> /CPxy {CP \<a ymailto="mailto:tx@UserCoor" href="mailto:tx@UserCoor">tx@UserCoor</a>} def<br>> /CPx {CPxy pop} def<br>>
/CPy {CPxy exch pop} def<br>> }<br>> \makeatother<br><br> I don't know the syntax !!CP. What's that?<br><br>> Thank you for your consideration and I am sorry if my suggestion sounds<br>> offensive.<br><br> I don't think there is something offensive here.<br><br> Jean-C?me Charpentier<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Subject: Digest Footer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PSTricks mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org" href="mailto:PSTricks@tug.org">PSTricks@tug.org</a><br><a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks" target="_blank">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pstricks</a><br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>End of PSTricks Digest, Vol 133, Issue 14<br>*****************************************<br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>