[pstricks] MikTeX, pst-3dplot and psaxes bug (perhaps)

[Herbert Voss]

eugene.ressler at frontiernet.net wrote:
> Just upgraded all pstricks stuff to the MikTeX most recent.
> 
> Was trying to get 3dplot to work.  The MikTeX database is missing
> pst-vue3d.  In case there is someone else out there going through this,
> the following worked.  Got the vue3d source from CTAN, copied it to a
> new folder /texmf/tex/latex/pst-vue3d.  (Perhaps the sty file should go
> here and the .tex file in /generic/pst-vue3d for consistency.)  Created
> a new folder /texmf/dvips/pst-vue3d.  Copied 3D.pro in there.  Ran the
> "MikTeX Options" program to "refresh the file name database" and viola.

it is the job of the TeX distribution to copy theses files in
the right directory, but on CTAN it is better to hold the pro|tex|sty
together. Drop Christian Chtistian Schenk a line that pst-vue3d was
missing.


> With the upgrade I got the new pstricks-add dated November 2004 and the
> tickstyle option of psaxes appears to have broken (pst-plot alone is
> still fine).   The code
> 
> \psaxes[tickstyle=bottom](1.1,1.2)

I have no problem.

Herbert

\listfiles
\documentclass[12pt]{article}%
\usepackage{pstricks}%
\usepackage{pst-3dplot}%
\usepackage{pstricks-add}
\begin{document}

\begin{pspicture}(-5,-2.5)(5,2.5)
\psaxes[tickstyle=bottom](0,0)(-5,-2.5)(5,2.5)
\end{pspicture}

\end{document}



  *File List*
  article.cls    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
   size12.clo    2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option)
pstricks.sty    2004/05/06 v0.2k LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
pstricks.tex    2004/06/29 v1.04 `PSTricks' (tvz)
   xcolor.sty    2004/07/04 v2.00 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
    color.cfg    2001/08/31 v1.1 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
    dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
pst-3dplot.sty    2004/07/15 package wrapper for pst-3dplot.tex (hv)
pst-3dplot.tex    2004/11/24 v1.50 `PST-3dplot' (hv)
pst-xkey.tex    2004/11/25 v1.2 PSTricks specialization of xkeyval (HA)
  xkeyval.sty    2004/11/25 v1.7 package option processing (HA)
  xkeyval.tex    2004/11/25 v1.7 key=value parser (HA)
pstricks-add.sty    2004/07/18 package wrapper for pstricks-add.tex (hv)
pstricks-add.tex    2004/11/24 v2.28 `PSTricks-add' (hv)
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