[XeTeX] PSTricks tricks...

[John Was]

Hi

Thanks.  I did try TikZ briefly but it fails to complete the diagrams on my 
installation, for some reason.  There are no error messages but even if I 
copy over the very first example in the TikZ manual I don't get all the 
lines.  So there is something weird going on!  Maybe TeXLive 2008 will sort 
it out for me.

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "snvv" <snvv101 at gmail.com>
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> Hello and sorry that I don't give a direct answer to your question but if 
> you
> like to use xetex might be worth considering the pdf-tikz instead of
> pstricks. It is almost as powerful as pstricks and 100% compatible with 
> xetex
> since it produces pdf output.
> Regards
> snvv
>
>
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 22:36:12 John Was wrote:
>> Dear All
>>
>> I've mentioned unexplained problems with PSTricks in XeTeX before, but 
>> here
>> is a new one which might at least intrigue or amuse even if no solution
>> suggests itself.
>>
>> I achieve the attached p13.pdf in XeTeX (TeXLive distribution on a 
>> Windows
>> XP platform) by \input-ing the attached short PSTricks code
>> desmetlines1.TEX.
>>
>> And I achieve p.14.pdf by \input-ing desmetlines2.TEX.
>>
>> But page 14 only works if I suppress the \input of desmetlines1.TeX on 
>> page
>> 13.  If I keep the line
>>
>> \input Desmetlines1.TEX
>>
>> on page 13 then I get the attached pp13-14.pdf, which, incredibly, 
>> ignores
>> the line
>>
>> \input desmetlines2.TEX
>>
>> and instead gives me an unwanted repeat of the lines for page 13.
>>
>> What's more, if I put any PSTricks command on any subsequent page of the
>> file, that command is ignored and instead I get a repeat of the lines
>> generated by desmetlines1.TeX.
>>
>> So it seems that once I've done some PSTricks stuff at one point in the
>> file, I'm being prevented from doing any PSTricks stuff anywhere else in
>> the file - invoking a PSTricks command simply causes it to remember the
>> lines it drew the first time and reproduce them on the page.
>>
>> I hope this will be sorted out by the time of the 2008 TeXLive
>> distribution!  But in the meantime if anyone can suggest a command to 
>> flush
>> out the driver's memory of its first PSTricks lines, that would be 
>> useful.
>> In this particular case, I've had to do a forced \vfill\eject between the
>> pages because of the need for a large vertical list that can't be split
>> because of the long vertical line.  If there is something I could do 
>> before
>> \vfill\eject to flush out this unwanted code and allow me to use PSTricks
>> normally on a subsequent page, that would be ideal (well, not ideal but 
>> it
>> would get me out of the fiddle of having to extract a correct version of
>> page 13 and remember to substitute it for the erroneous version of that
>> page (lacking the lines) that I have to create when rerunning XeTeX to
>> create a correct page 14).
>>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> John
>>
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>>
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