[SLUG] A smallish LaTeX problem.
On p.146 of the LaTeX Graphic Companion, the programme makes use of a package called postpoly. Which I cant find on the AARNET mirror in Australia. Uh, it does exist, doesn't it? Bill Bennett. This is the Postfix program at host mailhub1.une.edu.au. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the message returned below. The Postfix program [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Name service error for cs.uu.au: Host not found Reporting-MTA: dns; mailhub1.une.edu.au Arrival-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 17:50:49 +1100 (EST) Final-Recipient: rfc822; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Name service error for cs.uu.au: Host not found Piet, It's been a long time since I bothered you. You can take that as a compliment---the van Oostrum teaching worked. Except for now. Piet, On p.146 of the LaTeX Graphic Companion, the programme makes use of a package called postpoly. Which I cant find on the AARNET mirror in Australia. Uh, it does exist, doesn't it? Regards, Bill Bennett. --3E0DC3711.1004336222/mailhub1.une.edu.au--
Re: [SLUG] A smallish LaTeX problem.
Bill Bennett wrote: On p.146 of the LaTeX Graphic Companion, the programme makes use of a package called postpoly. Which I cant find on the AARNET mirror in Australia. Uh, it does exist, doesn't it? I have never heard of it but then there are thousands of tex packages. A quick search on http://www.ctan.org/ using postpoly keyword did not show anything. Are you sure it was postpoly and what does it DO ? Mike -- --- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Ph: 9514 1724 Fx: 9514 1628 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] A smallish LaTeX problem.
Bill Bennett wrote:
The chapter involved is called 4.10.2 PSTricks programming
examples. and the Figure 4.3 is entitled A polygon language
written in PSTricks by Denis Girou.
The figure shows a pentagon, 11-ogon, 5-pointed star, 5-pointed
vacant star etc. and the fragment of LaTeX starts
\usepackage{pstcol,pstpoly}
the line that would theoretically produce the figure I'm after is
\PstRegularPolygon[unit=2,RPolyNbSides=9,RPolyOffset=2]
From that ctan archive site http://www.ctan.org a search for pstricks gives
a link which can be followed to this:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/README
That file says
3.4 - Known pitfalls
a - To use the standard `color' package (which is available both
for plain TeX and LaTeX) with PSTricks, you must load the `pstcol' extra
package written by David Carlisle, which interface the two packages,
loading them in the right order, and overriding some small parts of PSTricks
to allow it to use the `color' package system for specifying color.
We STRONGLY recommend that you use this way today.
b - LaTeX users must also take care that the `pstcol' package is
required in place of the `pstricks' one if the `graphics' or `graphicx'
package is alos loaded.ur point that there are many packages, but as this was
You can get the pstcol package by seraching for pstcol in the filename section and
it will take you to this dir where
you can download it from:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/
The other file, pstpoly, seems to need some more searching.
Does not show up on ctan but there are lots of links to what appears to be it on
google.
Best luck :-)
Mike
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Re: [SLUG] A smallish LaTeX problem.
Michael Lake wrote: Bill Bennett wrote: The chapter involved is called 4.10.2 PSTricks programming examples. and the Figure 4.3 is entitled A polygon language written in PSTricks by Denis Girou. The other file, pstpoly, seems to need some more searching. Does not show up on ctan but there are lots of links to what appears to be it on google. Ah on ctan enter it in the filename search section as pst-poly and there you will find it ! Mike -- --- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Ph: 9514 1724 Fx: 9514 1628 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
