[XeTeX] pstricks and dvi output in xelatex

Alan Munn amunn at gmx.com
Fri Jul 30 21:02:36 CEST 2010


On Jul 30, 2010, at 11:38 AM, George wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Peter Dyballa  
> <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 30.07.2010 um 13:16 schrieb George:
>>
>>> I have some diagrams which do not render correctly in xelatex.
>>
>>
>> You should make public what does not work. Otherwise no improvements.
>>
>
> Text placed on connection lines is misplaced. For example, try the  
> following
> code both in latex and xelatex, checking the dvi and pdf output  
> respectively,
> and see the difference in the placement of the text:
>
> %~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> \documentclass [a4paper] {report}
>
> \usepackage{pstricks}
> \usepackage{pst-node}
>
> \begin{document}
> \begin{pspicture}(\textwidth, 10)
> 	\pnode(0.5,1.1){bottomInstructionLine}
> 	\pnode(0.5,8.5){topInstructionLine}
> 	\ncline{->}{topInstructionLine}{bottomInstructionLine}
> 	\ncput*[nrot=:D]{Instructions}
> \end{pspicture}
> \end{document}
> %~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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This is more a problem of your dvi viewer.  The pdf created from both  
is the same.

(e.g. xdvi doesn't display this correctly whether it's compiled with  
latex or xelatex.)

Alan

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