[pstricks] Empty space in figure due to \FP statements

Juergen Rose rose at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Sun Oct 27 21:12:06 CET 2013


On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 19:12 +0000, Luis Sequeira wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2013, at 3:46 PM, pstricks-request at tug.org wrote:
> 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 16:46:16 +0100
> > From: Juergen Rose <rose at rz.uni-potsdam.de>
> > To: Graphics with PSTricks <pstricks at tug.org>
> > Subject: [pstricks] Empty space in figure due to \FP statements
> > Message-ID: <1382888776.16000.8.camel at impala.homenet>
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> > 
> > 
> > I use in the file circles_1.tex the following code:
> > 
> > \begin{figure}[ht!]
> >  \begin{centering}
> >    \fbox{
> >      \input{circles_3_1.tex}
> >    }
> >    \caption{An array of circles}
> >    \label{fig:circles_3}
> >  \end{centering}
> > \end{figure}
> > 
> > At the begin of circles_3_1.tex there are several \FP statements in
> > front of a pspicture:
> > 
> > \FPset\radiusZd{0.9}
> > \FPmul\diameter\radiusZd{2}
> > \FPset\xCee{\radiusZd}
> > ...
> > \FPmul\radiusZdq\radiusZd{0.25}
> > \begin{pspicture}[](\xpsmin,\ypsmin)(\xpsmax,\ypsmax)
> >  \psaxes[]{->}(0,0)(\xmin,-\radiusZdh)(\xmax,\ymax)
> > ...
> >  \rput(\xgzl,\ygzl){$g_2$}
> > \end{pspicture}
> > 
> > 
> > In the resulting circles_1.pdf there is a lot of empty space at the left
> > side of the figure. If I split circles_3_1.tex in circles_3_data.tex and
> > circles_3_2.tex, where circles_3_data.tex contains the \FP statements
> > and circles_3_2.tex contains the pspicture and include both files in
> > circles_2.tex:
> > 
> > \input{circles_3_data.tex}
> > \begin{figure}[ht!]
> >  \begin{centering}
> >    \fbox{
> >      \input{circles_3_2.tex}
> >    }
> >    \caption{An array of circles}
> > \label{fig:circles_3}
> >  \end{centering}
> > \end{figure}
> > 
> > the figure looks as expected. It looks if the FP statements in circles_3_1.tex are 
> > responsible for the right shift of pspicture to right side in circles_1.pdf. 
> > I would like to have only one input file for one figure but also to avoid this right shift.
> > 
> > Is there any way?
> > 
> 
> Not having a complete minimal example I can't say for sure, but it looks like one of those cases where an extra space at the end of a line is causing trouble.
> Either post a complete minimal example, or start by trying placing a few comment signs ('%') at the end of lines.
> 
> Luis Sequeira

The complete files were attached to my first mail.




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