[pstricks] Setting Tables with Latex
Jon Joseph
josco.jon at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 05:44:01 CET 2010
Herbert:
I thought I would let you know that I tried to buy your book (your typesetting math in latex is excellent) about setting tables in latex but after several months Amazon informed me that the supplier could not supply the book. Here is the exact message:
"Hello,
Due to a lack of availability from our suppliers, we will not be able to obtain the following item(s) from your order:
Herbert Voss "Typesetting Tables with LaTeX"
We've cancelled the item(s) and apologize for the inconvenience. We must also apologize for the length of time it has taken us to reach this conclusion. Until recently, we had still hoped to obtain these item(s) for you."
I'm not sure if this comes as a surprise but your books are very handy and I find it unfortunate. Jon
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> 4. Re: Which package defines parametricplotThreeD? (Michael Sharpe)
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> From: Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [pstricks] Which package defines parametricplotThreeD?
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> On Jul 8, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
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>> But running this produced the error
>>
>>> ! Undefined control sequence.
>>> \XC at usec@lor ...\expandafter \c at lor@to at ps #1#2\@@
>>> \else \expandafter \expand...
>>> l.29 \parametricplotThreeD
>>> [xPlotpoints=200, hiddenLine=true](0,360){%
>>> ?
>>
>> The only change between the two versions was some erasing of commented stuff and changing the package calls.
>>
>> So I have two questions:
>> 1. Why does the second version result in \parametricplotThreeD being undefined?
>> 2. Why does viewpoint have no effect in my first version?
>>
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> 1. It's not \parametricplotThreeD that it's complaining about---it's \@@. However, that *should* be an undefined token, as it is used to mark the end of an argument. I don't get any error when I run your second example, or your first. It might be time to upgrade your pstricks packages.
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> 2. Use keywords Alpha and Beta to set the viewpoint for objects defined in pst-3Dplot.
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> Michael
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> From: Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at FU-Berlin.DE>
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> Subject: Re: [pstricks] Which package defines parametricplotThreeD?
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> Am 08.07.2010 13:14, schrieb Zbigniew Nitecki:
>> I have been having trouble getting the viewpoint keyvalue to work, but along the
>> way I also have run into a strange problem.
>> The following code (which I admit is not minimal, but see below why) produces
>> the attached picture:
>
> remember that pst-3dplot shows a parallel view of your 3d object and
> the only parameter to change the setting of the coordinate are Alpha
> for the horizontal rotation and Beta for vertical rotation. However,
> for rotation the objects you can use xRot,yRot,... The viewpoint
> values are not taken into account.
>
> Herbert, from Palm Springs at 104 degrees ...
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> Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 20:57:49 -0400
> From: Zbigniew Nitecki <zbigniew.nitecki at tufts.edu>
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> On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:12, Michael Sharpe wrote:
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>> It might be time to upgrade your pstricks packages.
> I must admit that I have become rusty about the mechanics of downloading and installing a pstricks update.
> I looked at the pstricks homepage, and went to the UK group FAQ, and learned a little about TDS.
> But I'm still not clear exactly what I should do to update my pstricks. Is there some documentation with
> step-by-step instructions for a computer idiot like me, who uses gui most of the time and is afraid of the console?
> And also, is there a bundled package (I think there used to be) that can download and install most of what I need?
> I went and downloaded from CTAN a pstricks file which when it unzipped gave me a folder called "base":
> it looks like maybe just the barebones stuff necessary for pstricks, unadorned. The contents seem to differ a bit
> from the list of subdirectories in the texmf file in my user library.
>>
>> 2. Use keywords Alpha and Beta to set the viewpoint for objects defined in pst-3Dplot.
> Sure, I can do that (and even know how to), but would like to understand in what context the viewpoint setting works.
> Or is it now obsolete?
>>
>> Michael
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> From: Michael Sharpe <msharpe at ucsd.edu>
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> On Jul 8, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Zbigniew Nitecki wrote:
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>>
>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 17:12, Michael Sharpe wrote:
>>
>>> It might be time to upgrade your pstricks packages.
>> I must admit that I have become rusty about the mechanics of downloading and installing a pstricks update.
>> I looked at the pstricks homepage, and went to the UK group FAQ, and learned a little about TDS.
>> But I'm still not clear exactly what I should do to update my pstricks. Is there some documentation with
>> step-by-step instructions for a computer idiot like me, who uses gui most of the time and is afraid of the console?
>> And also, is there a bundled package (I think there used to be) that can download and install most of what I need?
>> I went and downloaded from CTAN a pstricks file which when it unzipped gave me a folder called "base":
>> it looks like maybe just the barebones stuff necessary for pstricks, unadorned. The contents seem to differ a bit
>> from the list of subdirectories in the texmf file in my user library.
>>>
>>> 2. Use keywords Alpha and Beta to set the viewpoint for objects defined in pst-3Dplot.
>> Sure, I can do that (and even know how to), but would like to understand in what context the viewpoint setting works.
>> Or is it now obsolete?
>>>
>>> Michael
>
> If you are using MacTeX 2009, you *may* be able to do one more upgrade using TeX Live utility, a front end to tlmgr, even though the upgrade deadline is past. That would be the easiest, if it worked. If you don't have MacTeX 2009, then it's a large download (1.2GB) from http://www.tug.org/mactex/2009/, but the installation is just about completely automatic. To get the latest pstricks packages, you could download the compressed TDS from http://archiv.dante.de/~herbert/---you want PSTricks-TDS.tgz. Double-click on it to decompress it to a folder named PSTricks-TDS in your Downloads folder. Assuming this is ~/Downloads/PSTricks-TDS, you would start Terminal and type
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> This copies the entire contents of PSTricks-TDS into your hidden personal texmf tree. I suggest doing it this way rather than into the system texmf trees because MacTeX 2010 will be with us shortly, and you can (must) easily dispose of the entire hidden tree after installing MacTeX 2010 with
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> rm -rf ~/.texlive2009/texmf-var
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> so that it does not interfere with the new installation. (It will be re-created automatically.)
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> As far as I know, viewpoint is a keyword used only by the package pst-3d, and appears to be ignored by macros in pst-3dplot.
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> Michael
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