[pstricks] Ending a psline on pscircle

[Werner Grundlingh]

If you know where your terminal node should be located on the circle's
edge, you can use polar coordinates to identify the location (by adding
\SpecialCoor to pspicture environment and using (<r>;<t>) notation).


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

>   I hope the subject line is not too obscure.
>
>   When I draw a \psline from a point (whose coordinates I know from the
> grid
> and center of the \pscircle or \pselipse) to the boundary line of the
> \pscircle or \pselipse I end up tweaking the terminal coordinates until the
> line end (or terminal arrow point) just touches the boundary line. I'm
> certain there's a method to determining just what those terminal
> coordinates
> are, but I have not found it in my copy of Herbert's PSTricks book.
>
>   I would appreciate a pointer to how I determine those coordinates when
> looking at the light grey grid lines in the dvips output or by another,
> more
> exact, means.
>
> Rich
>
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