[pstricks] Re: Word Balloons

[dpstory at uakron.edu]

The example worked for me, but I had to reformat, after I copied and pasted. There was 
some wrap-around.  Clean up your source file, and try again.

dps

On 17 Sep 2005 at 22:28, Paul Smith wrote:

> On 9/17/05, Herbert Voss <LaTeX at zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > > I haven't seen anything in PSTricks for creating word balloons (used in cartoons to show the
> > > thoughts or speech of a character). I believe PowerPoint has word balloons.  Does anyone
> > > know of anything from PSTricks?
> > 
> > \documentclass[12pt]{article}
> > \usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}
> > %
> > \makeatletter
> > \def\psWordBallon{\pst at object{psWordBallon}}
> > \def\psWordBallon at i(#1)(#2)#3#4{{%
> >    \use at par
> >    \pst at killglue
> >    \pnode(#2){WB at end}
> >    \rput(#1){\ovalnode{WB at center}{\parbox{#3}{#4}}}
> > 
> > \nccurve[doubleline=true,doublesep=5pt,arrows=->,fillstyle=none]{WB at center}{WB at end}
> >    \ignorespaces
> > }}
> > \makeatother
> > \parindent=0pt
> > \begin{document}
> > 
> > \psWordBallon[angleB=100,angleA=-30](0,0)(3,-3){3cm}{Let's see what we
> > can see in this Word Ballon \ldots}
> > \psWordBallon[angleB=140,angleA=-90,linecolor=red,fillstyle=solid,fillcolor=cyan](5,0)(4,-6){2cm}%
> >     {\raggedright Let's see what we can see in this Word Ballon \ldots}
> > 
> > \vspace{6cm}
> > Syntax: \verb+\psWordBallon[options](text center)(arrow end){text
> > width}{text}+
> > 
> > \end{document}
> 
> I tried the above example, but I get the following error:
> 
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks/pst-node.tex  v97 patch 11, 2000/11/09))
>  (./word_balloons.aux)
> Underfull \hbox (badness 2837) in paragraph at lines 21--21
> []\OT1/cmr/m/n/12 Let's see what
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: \verb ended by end of line.
> 
> \listfiles produces the following output:
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>  *File List*
>   article.cls    2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>   size12.clo    2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
> pstricks.sty    2004/05/12 v0.2l LaTeX wrapper for `PSTricks' (RN,HV)
> pstricks.tex    2005/08/13 v1.10 `PSTricks' (tvz)
>   xcolor.sty    2004/07/04 v2.00 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
>    color.cfg    2005/02/03 v1.3 color configuration of teTeX/TeXLive
>    dvips.def    1999/02/16 v3.0i Driver-dependant file (DPC,SPQR)
> pst-node.sty    2004/07/15 package wrapper for pst-node.tex
> pst-node.tex    2000/11/09 97 patch 11 `pst-node' (tvz)
>  ***********
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 
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