[pstricks] how to get absolute coordinates

[Herbert Voss]

Franco Bagnoli wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Herbert Voss wrote:
> 
> 
>>Franco Bagnoli wrote:
>>
>>
>>>A question: 
>>>Which information is  associated to a node? I was not able to understand 
>>>what GetCenter does. I need the "bounding box" of a frame, and maybe the 
>>>node already contains this information.  
>>
>>These procedures are always defined at the beginning of pst-node.pro,
>>wich is in texmf/dvips/pstricks
> 
> 
> 
> I am sorry, but I tried to understand the postscript 
> but without comments it is not easy (for instance, I did 
> not found which definition of Y is used when invoking GetCenter, and also 
> the definition of NodeMtrx is obscure to me). 
> 
> I see that there is a GetEdge command (which however does not take the 
> same arguments of GetCenter) which could be what I was looking for. How is 
> it used? #

here is the original documentation of Timothy

http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/pst-code/pst-code.pdf

The source file is also available .

Herbert


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