[pstricks] Error using pst-light3d.tex

[John Culleton]

On Friday 09 May 2008 09:05:54 am Herbert Voss wrote:
> John Culleton schrieb:
> >> $ tex cull.tex
> >> This is TeX, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>
> John,
> what TeX version do you have running?
>
> Herbert
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I have tried texlive-2007, a new install of texlive-2007 
in /usr/share, and Slackware's version of tetex (but that lacks many 
files.) 

I have grepped such files as pstricks.tex   
keyval.tex   
pst-light3d.tex  
xkeyval.tex
looking for the string addfam as found in the command
\pst at addfams 
but I cannot find where it is defined.  If I could identify where that 
command is defined (if it is indeed a command)  then perhaps I could 
update that file.  I tried commenting out that line but then xkeyval 
complains:
! xkeyval error: `LightThreeDXLength' undefined in families `'.

One thing I have not tried: installing miktex on my new Win xp 
partition.  If all else fails I will try that.  Or maybe debian. 

BTW if I eliminate everything except the two input statements at the 
top I still get the error message.  The call to \pst at addfams occurs 
in the pst-light3d.tex file and nowhere else that I can find.   

Also I haven't tried LaTeX yet, out of an aversion for that format. 
But any port in a storm I guess. 
-- 
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