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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Dear All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I've mentioned unexplained problems with
PSTricks in XeTeX before, but here is a new one which might at least
intrigue or amuse even if no solution suggests itself.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I achieve the attached p13.pdf in XeTeX
(TeXLive distribution on a Windows XP platform) by \input-ing the attached short
PSTricks code desmetlines1.TEX.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">And I achieve p.14.pdf by \input-ing
desmetlines2.TEX.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">But page 14 only works if I suppress the
\input of desmetlines1.TeX on page 13. If I keep the line</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\input Desmetlines1.TEX</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">on page 13 then I get the attached
pp13-14.pdf, which, incredibly, ignores the line</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">\input desmetlines2.TEX</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">and instead gives me an unwanted repeat of
the lines for page 13.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">What's more, if I put any PSTricks command on
any subsequent page of the file, that command is ignored and instead I get a
repeat of the lines generated by desmetlines1.TeX.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">So it seems that once I've done some PSTricks
stuff at one point in the file, I'm being prevented from doing any PSTricks
stuff anywhere else in the file - invoking a PSTricks command simply causes it
to remember the lines it drew the first time and reproduce them on the
page.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">I hope this will be sorted out by the time of
the 2008 TeXLive distribution! But in the meantime if anyone can suggest a
command to flush out the driver's memory of its first PSTricks lines, that would
be useful. In this particular case, I've had to do a forced \vfill\eject
between the pages because of the need for a large vertical list that can't be
split because of the long vertical line. If there is something I could do
before \vfill\eject to flush out this unwanted code and allow me to use PSTricks
normally on a subsequent page, that would be ideal (well, not ideal but it would
get me out of the fiddle of having to extract a correct version of page 13 and
remember to substitute it for the erroneous version of that page (lacking the
lines) that I have to create when rerunning XeTeX to create a correct page
14).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">Best</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS"></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Unicode MS">John</FONT></DIV>
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