[OS X TeX] First tries with PSTricks
Gary Church
gary.church1 at comcast.net
Fri Jan 30 03:49:44 CET 2009
Hi,
I've used PSTricks but have switched to using pgf/tikz (http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/
). It does what I want more easily than PSTricks and seems more
intuitive to me. I think PSTricks may be more powerful in that it can
do things that pgf/tikz can't but I don't usually need the power and
prefer the relative simplicity.
Take care,
Gary
On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Scott, Randy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Things between me and TeX have been pretty good of late. After a
> year of concerted effort, I've gotten to the point where I can make
> documents do what I want them to do, and I'v not used M$ Word for a
> single document for the last 6 months! This is due in no small part
> to the help of the users of this list.
>
> So I'm trying to learn PSTricks. I found a nice tutorial <http://sarovar.org/projects/pstricks/
> > through the TUG website, but I'm having a little trouble getting
> started.
>
> I've included \usepackage{pstricks} in the preamble, and when I
> check the log file, it shows
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/latex/
> pstricks.sty
> Package: pstricks 2008/01/24 v0.37 LaTeX wrapper for
> `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
>
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/
> pstricks.tex
> `PSTricks' v1.26 <2008/07/31> (tvz)
> \pst at dima=\dimen112
> \pst at dimb=\dimen113
> \pst at dimc=\dimen114
> \pst at dimd=\dimen115
> \pst at dimg=\dimen116
> \pst at dimh=\dimen117
> \pst at hbox=\box28
> \pst at boxg=\box29
> \pst at cnta=\count100
> \pst at cntb=\count101
> \pst at cntc=\count102
> \pst at cntd=\count103
> \pst at cntg=\count104
> \pst at cnth=\count105
> \pst at toks=\toks19
> (/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/
> pstricks.con)
> \psunit=\dimen118
> \psxunit=\dimen119
> \psyunit=\dimen120
> \pslinewidth=\dimen121
> \pst at customdefs=\toks20
> \pslinearc=\dimen122
> \everypsbox=\toks21
> \psframesep=\dimen123
> \pslabelsep=\dimen124
> \pst at shift=\dimen125
> \theoverlaybox=\box30
> )
> File: pstricks.tex 2008/07/31 v1.26 `PSTricks' (tvz)
>
> which I think means that pstricks is loaded properly. But when I
> type even the simplest of commands, say \psline(1,1)(3,2) , I get an
> error message : undefined control sequence
>
> This happens whether I include the command inside a pspicture
> environment or not.
>
> Any help identifying what's going wrong would be appreciated.
>
> Randy Scott
> Santiago Canyon College
> Orange, Ca
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