[XeTeX] Updating XeTeX (plain) for PS Tricks

[John Was]

Thanks for the reply.

Yes - curious that the first box and line work and all the rest fail.  Your 
version is correct and the chart also works for me in a non-XeTeX 
implementation, as I showed before.

The only thing that occurred was that I may not have the distiller template 
option set correctly - you mentioned this before as one of the requirements 
but as I didn't know what changes I should be making I just ignored it.  I 
guess I shall just have to limp along and hope that TeXLive2008 will have a 
robust version ready to use out of the box.  It's possible that some setting 
on my system is causing problems, but it's nothing that I have altered 
consciously.

Best


John




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From: "caapv 208" <caapv208 at yahoo.co.jp>
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> --- John Was <john.was at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the patch.  I think there are probably
>> several other things that
>> need to be worked out to get PS Tricks to work
>> perfectly with XeTeX and I'm
>> sure you're on to these!  I did eventually (thanks
>> to a helpful friend) get
>> the driver set up properly (I trust) but I now find
>> that \psframebox and
>> \ncline don't always work.  The attached PDFs show
>> an incorrect and a
>> correct version of the same chart, with exactly the
>> same input code.  The
>> correct version was produced via EmTeX and the
>> incorrect version via XeTeX
>
> I cannot reproduce!
> I have added 5 lines
>
> \nopagenumbers
> % \tracingall
> \input pstricks.tex
> \input pst-node.tex
> \def\extract{}
>
> at the beginning of
>
>> \midinsert
>> \extract%THIS CALLS THE FONT AT THE REQUIRED SIZE
>> \def\apexpoint#1#2{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
>> \pnode(0.5\wd0,-3.5pt){#2}}%
>> \def\upperpoint#1#2{\setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
>> \pnode(0.5\wd0,10pt){#2}}%
>> \psset{linewidth=0.5pt,%
>> framesep=3pt,%
>> nodesepA=0pt,%
>> nodesepB=0pt}%
>> \tabskip 0pt plus \hsize
>> \halign to \hsize{%
>> #\hfil\tabskip 0pt&
>> #\hfil&
>> #\hfil&
>> #\hfil&
>> #\hfil\tabskip 0pt plus \hsize\cr
>> &&&\apexpoint{animal}{A}%
>> \psframebox{animal}\cr
>> \noalign{\vskip 24pt}
>> &&\upperpoint{rationale}{B}%
>> \apexpoint{rationale}{D}%
>> \psframebox{rationale}&&
>> \upperpoint{irrationale}{C}%
>> \psframebox{irrationale}\cr
>> \noalign{\vskip 24pt}
>> &\upperpoint{mortale}{E}%
>> \apexpoint{mortale}{G}%
>> \psframebox{mortale}&&
>> \upperpoint{immortale}{F}%
>> \psframebox{immortale}\cr
>> \noalign{\vskip 24pt}
>> \upperpoint{voluntarie}{H}%
>> \psframebox{\rlap{mobile}%
>> \lower\baselineskip \hbox{voluntarie}}&&
>> \upperpoint{apta a natura et}{I}%
>> \psframebox{%
>> \setbox0=\hbox{apta a natura et}%
>> \copy0\hskip -\wd0
>> \lower\baselineskip \hbox{\rlap{fantasia ad}}%
>> \lower 2\baselineskip
>> \hbox{\rlap{motum}\phantom{apta a natura et}}}\cr}
>> \ncline{A}{B}%
>> \ncline{D}{E}%
>> \ncline{G}{H}%
>> \ncline[linestyle=dashed]{A}{C}%
>> \ncline[linestyle=dashed]{D}{F}%
>> \ncline[linestyle=dashed]{G}{I}%
>> \endinsert
>
> then add
>
> \eject\bye
>
> at the end, and run XeTeX on it and have the attached
> file, which seems fine to me.
>
> The fact that you have at least one \psframebox and an
> \ncline correct may suggest that your installation is
> OK, though.
>
>> Best
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Regards,
> SMiyata
>
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