[pstricks] Moving the baseline

[Herbert Voss]

na199 at gmx.de wrote:

> in the original pstricks  manual (1993, TVZ) is a facility is mentioned how to
> move the baseline:
> 
> Instead of e.g just 
> 
> \pspicture(0,0)(10,10) 
> 
> one has to write
> 
> \pspicture[.5](0,0)(10,10)
> 
> which moves the baseline roughly to the middle of the height.
> 
> This works well with an old installation (which was never updated), but it does 
> not work on a recent installation (made from TeXLive CD).
> 
> Error message: Pstricks error. 
> Graphics parameter .5 not defined.
> 
> Any idea what is wrong? Or was this function deleted?

Read the news of updates for pstricks.tex,
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/doc/pstnews1-10.pdf

a search for "pspicture option" in the mail archive
is also helpful

Herbert