[comp.text.tex] Re: \hlines with PSTricks?

[Denis Girou]

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From: Denis Girou <Denis.Girou at idris.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: \hlines with PSTricks?
Date: 02 Sep 1997 22:29:50 +0200

  >From: m9418 at abc.se (Jonas Bofjall)
  >Date: 18 Aug 1997 11:06:33 GMT

  Jonas.Bofjall> I want a pspicture to be put over a \hline. This would be easiest if there
  Jonas.Bofjall> was a command like \qline(0,5)(\paperwith,0), then I could use it to obtain
  Jonas.Bofjall> the horisontal line. Is this possible?

  Jonas.Bofjall> I have also been experimenting with including
  Jonas.Bofjall> \makebox[0pt]{\raisebox{5pt}{\hline}} but this does not work:
  Jonas.Bofjall>   ! Misplaced \noalign.
  Jonas.Bofjall>   \hline ->\noalign
  Jonas.Bofjall>                     {\ifnum 0=}\fi \hrule \@height \arrayrulewidth

  Jonas.Bofjall> but it would be easier to do with all PSTricks of course.

  It's easy, but you can't used directly a dimension register as parameter.
You must used a macro definition. The following do what you want:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pstricks}

\newcommand{\PaperWidth}{\paperwidth}
\newcommand{\TextWidth}{\textwidth}

\begin{document}

\qline(0,0)(\PaperWidth,-2)

\qline(0,-3)(0.3\PaperWidth,-8)

\qline(0,-8)(0.3\TextWidth,-10)

\end{document}

Denis Girou
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