[pstricks] Post-processing placement of typeset text

[Alan Ristow]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:40:43 +0200, Herbert Voss
<Herbert.Voss at alumni.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:

>Alan Ristow wrote:
>
>> It appears to me that \rput places its text into an \hbox at the origin,
>> typesets it, then translates it to the required location. The approach
>> that seems most obvious to me is to place each typeset contour label
>> into a PS array, then get each label from the array and translate it
>> upon execution of the PS file. Problem is, I'm not sure how to put the
>> labels into the PS array. I'm also interested in other algorithms, if
>> anybody has any ideas. Clearly I'm treading into unfamiliar territory
>> here, and I'm afraid I might be thinking too much like a C programmer to
>> find an efficient solution.
>
>for psbrace I set a node and then modify the \rput at iv
>macro. Have a look at the pstricks-add code for
>\psbrace

Thanks, Herbert! I think I see what you are doing there and I'm pretty
sure I can modify it for my purposes. It's really much more clever than
what I had in mind....

Alan