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Having fixed my minimal test example, I was able to experiment and came away with a usable workaround to the problems I was having earlier.
<div class="">However, my experience leaves me with two questions—both are now matters of idle curiosity, so not requiring ASAP (or even eventual) answers.</div>
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<div class="">1, I was trying to create a picture showing the ways the sub-squares in a partition of the square (into nine congruent squares of length 1/3) could be ordered linearly</div>
<div class="">so that successive sub-squares share an edge. So I have a 3X3 grid and want to insert a node in the center of each cell, then draw nclines connecting them.</div>
<div class="">This worked fine using the format <font color="#00a3d7" class="">\cnodeput(x,y){nodename}{number}</font> for the nodes and <font color="#008cb4" class="">\ncline{</font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class=""><font color="#008cb4" class="">codename}{nextnodename}
</font>for the inclines.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">But when I tried to add arrows to the nclines using the format </span><font color="#008cb4" class="">\ncline{->}{</font><font color="#008cb4" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">codename}{nextnodename}
</font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">my typesetting crashed. I still don’t know why, since it worked</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">fine for the minimal example. I could live without the arrowheads, but just for luck I tried the alternative format </span><font color="#008cb4" class="">\ncline[arrows=->]{</font><font color="#008cb4" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">codename}{nextnodename}
</font><font style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">and this</font></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">worked fine (both in the minimal example and in the book project). So I don’t
<i class="">need</i> to know why, but I am curious about the difference between the two formats, which</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">I have always treated as equivalent. What about the difference between them would make one work and the other crash?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">2. I have a second, even less pressing question. For “put” commands (\rput, \uput) the starred versions (\rput*, \uput*) sanctify (:-) the object being “put” —the </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">object gets a little halo of space around it and anything that crosses its space via an earlier command is erased—at least the part under the halo.</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">But when I tried the analogous modification of the \ncline command (\ncline*—which the Graphics Companion acknowledges as a real thing, even though it is called not useful ) </span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">the <i class="">
opposite</i> occurs: instead of a bit of the edge from the grid being erase, the whole \ncline gets erased. Is there a way to “sanctify” an \ncline—to make it the forefront</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">object relative to any object created earlier in the pspicture environment?</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">If anyone has the interest, time and energy to answer either question, I’ll be thankful.</span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">Cheers</span></div>
<div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 140, 180);" class="">Ziggy Nitecki</span></div>
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<div class="">On May 28, 2022, at 17:20, Nitecki, Zbigniew H. <<a href="mailto:Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu" class="">Zbigniew.Nitecki@tufts.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">Thanks, Luis, you found the problem. I use the TeXShop editor very naively, so the suggestion by Michal Hoppe was for me too much technical jargon, and I couldn’t see why my book project,
which certainly didn’t explicitly use his suggested input, worked when this didn’t. Luis jogged my memory and I realized that I use the prelude
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<div class="">(which I presume is shorthand for latex+dvips) in my book project. I added it to the test file and it worked, except for two typos—one which I thank Michael for spotting, and the other became obvious once I got the thing to run.</div>
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<div class="">Murray, I don’t use a Mac Studio—I have no idea what that even is. I use my MacBook Pro with TexShop and no fancy gadgets that I am aware of. </div>
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smack!</i><span class="" style="font-style:normal"> to my forehead was not as loud as I expected, but it was still there. ouch. :-)</span></div>
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<div class="">On May 28, 2022, at 15:05, Luís Sequeira <<a href="mailto:lfsequeira@gmail.com" class="">lfsequeira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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from MacTeX 2022/TeXLive 2022.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>The whole process, including unzipping the archive and running the pdflatexmk engine to completion of its 5 or 5 passes should take no more than 8 minutes.</div>
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editing but need to see the complete current state of the document, that is just wasting too much time!</div>
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<div class=""><span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>So I’m considering whether to upgrade to a Mac Studio but want to see whether the upgrade does significantly decrease the LaTeX processing time of my by-now 600+ page book.</div>
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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">I’m trying to run a test to see why the pst-nodes package is not letting me do certain things inside a big book project.
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