[pstricks] Re: Migrating PSTricks \pslongbox macro use to pdflatex via ps4pdf

[Herbert Voss]

abhi wrote:
> I have a large document which makes heavy use of PSTricks. I have been
> able to use the ps4pdf package and its \PSforPDF macro to convert most
> of the PSTRicks macros to work with pdflatex. However, I am stuck on
> how to do convert over the \pslongbox macro which I make extensive use
> of. I use pslongbox to create different layout environments or Lemmas,
> exercises, remarks etc. An example is
> 
>    \pslongbox{MyLemma}{\psshadowbox[shadowcolor=gray,shadowsize=.15in,framearc=.3
> ,framesep=10pt]}
> 
> This allows me to create a framed lemma using 
> 
>   \begin{MyLemma}
> 
>    Lemma 1: blah blah blah
>    blah blah
> 
>   \end{MyLemma}
> 
> I cannot figure out the correct way to use \PSforPDF with \pslongbox
> to make this work for pdflatex. Neither
> 
>   \PSforPDF{\pslongbox{MyLemma}{\psshadowbox[shadowcolor=gray,shadowsize=.15in,framearc=.3},framesep=10pt]}}
> 
> nor 
> 
>   \pslongbox{MyLemma}{\PSforPDF{\psshadowbox[shadowcolor=gray,shadowsize=.15in,framearc=.3},framesep=10pt]}}
> 
> work - and I can see why. Any suggestions on what the correct usage
> might be? Do I need to create the MyLemma environment in a different
> way?

here is an example with a variable parbox, you can ignore
the package varwidth if you have only one line.

ps4pdf can not deal with empty lines, put a % in the
first column

Herbert


\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{varwidth}
\usepackage{ps4pdf}
\PSforPDF{
   \usepackage{pstricks}
   \psset{shadowcolor=gray,shadowsize=.15in,framearc=.3,framesep=10pt}
   \pslongbox{MyLemma}{\psshadowbox}
}

\begin{document}

This allows me to create a framed lemma using

\PSforPDF{
  \begin{MyLemma}
    \begin{varwidth}{\linewidth}
    Lemma 1: blah blah blah\\
    blah blah
    \end{varwidth}
  \end{MyLemma}
}

\end{document}


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