Problem with pstricks and xdvi

[Dung Ta Quang Vuong]

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> From Denis.Girou at idris.fr Wed Aug  5 22:18:42 1998
> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:18:38 +0200 (MET)
> To: PSTricks mailing list <pstricks at tug.org>
> Cc: dung at igd.fhg.de (Dung Ta Quang (Vuong))
> Subject: Re: Problem with pstricks and xdvi
> From: Denis Girou <Denis.Girou at idris.fr>
> 
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> Yesterday i successfully installed xdvi patch 21.16 (latest version) on
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> my system (linux slackware 3.5, teTeX 0.4, pstricks Jul 98 (CTAN)). I then
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> tried out some examples in the docs and everything seem to work fine except
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \nput. Hier is the latex file:
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{letter}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \usepackage{pst-node}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \begin{document}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \begin{pspicture}(0,0)(5,5)
>     Dung.Ta.Quang>   \cnode*(1,1){2pt}{v1}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang>   \nput[labelsep=.1]{180}{v1}{$v_1$}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang>   \cnode*(2,4){2pt}{v2}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang>   \nput[labelsep=.1]{90}{v2}{$v_2$}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang>   \ncline{v1}{v2}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \end{pspicture}
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> \end{document}
> 
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> the problem is, that both labels were placed at (0,0) instead closely to
>     Dung.Ta.Quang> (1,1) resp. (2,4). What is now to do?
> 
>   I don't reproduce your problem, so it is very probably related to xdvi that
> I never use (nor the old nor the so-called "new" version). I know that the
> "new" version is supposed to call ghostscript for "specials" but I don't know
> the limitations.
> 
>   In any case, first convert your dvi file to PostScript using dvips, which
> must be available on your installation, and visualize the resulting file with
> gv (or ghostview or gs if you have not it - even if gv is probably today the
> best PostScript viewver under Unix). You'll very probably see that your
> example run correctly for you too.
> 
> D.G.
> 

Hi Denis
yes, it does. But the "new" xdvi version now supports 'header=' and '!' so
I just think it could  be not difficult to modified the driver for dvips to
get it work with xdvi. Am i wrong?
Ta Quang

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