[Problem] Bug in \uput* macro

[Denis Girou]

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  Bob Howlett <bobh at maths.usyd.edu.au> recently report that the \uput* macro
doesn't work (in fact, it doesn't work since PSTricks 97, so seems not heavily 
used!). The code for \uput was completely rewritten in pst-beta.tex in 1994
and \uput* was broken in it. And obviously, it was this code that we used to
build PSTricks 97.

  * 99/03/24 pstricks.tex (97 patch 10): The * convention doesn't work
in the \uput* macro, due to a broken definition in the code of pst-beta.tex
used to build PSTricks 97.
(reported by Bob Howlett <bobh at maths.usyd.edu.au>)

  Correction is very easy:

\def\fileversion{97 patch 10}
\def\filedate{1999/03/24}

% DG/SR modification begin - Mar. 24, 1999 - Patch 10
%\def\uput{\def\pst at par{}\@ifnextchar[{\uput at ii}{\uput at i}}
\def\uput{\def\pst at par{}\pst at ifstar{\@ifnextchar[{\uput at ii}{\uput at i}}} 
% DG/SR modification end

  My test case is:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pstricks}

\makeatletter
\def\uput{\def\pst at par{}\pst at ifstar{\@ifnextchar[{\uput at ii}{\uput at i}}} 
\makeatother

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\begin{pspicture}(4,4)
  \psframe(4,4)
  \rput(0,0){Bottom right}
  \rput*(4,0){Bottom left}
  \uput[0](0,3.9){Top right}
  \uput*[0](3.5,4){Top left}
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}

D.G.

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