[pstricks] word balloons

[Piet Groeneboom]

[pstricks] Re: Word Balloons

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 17 23:28:36 CEST 2005

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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 this out, but got the error message:

! Use of \psWordBallon doesn't match its definition.
l.17 \psWordBallon[
                     
angleB=140,angleA=-90,linecolor=red,fillstyle=solid,fillc...


Piet
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