I'm impressed that you chose to program in PostScript. Why not a more user-friendly language? Just wondering....
> ---------- > From: john hoy > Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:34 PM > To: Sundial Mail List > Subject: paper equatorial dial with pencil gnomon > > Fellow dialists, > > I have rewritten my equatorial dial in native postscript and I think it is > much improved. It is also available in PDF but PostScript users can > change the motto and include a longitude correction or even change the > design substantially by changing a few parameters. > > If anyone would like to point out mistakes or other flaws please be my > guest(s.) If you're using ghostscript and PostScript files are not > centered on the page when it comes out of your printer you can adjust the > printer properties to compensate. > > I have some sympathy for the fellow who didn't want attachments. I have a > cousin who sends me email with attachments and when I asked her to stop > she told me that she didn't know how to stop and didn't even know that shw > was doing it so I just learned to live with it. Likewise I wish people > wouldn't send email as HTML but I figure that they either want to do it > that way or don't know any better. It's easy to get tunnel vision. I > figure that everybody's not going to wise up and think like me so I let > them do what they want (even if it means putting up with those @$%*! > frames!) > > The dial is at http://www.cyberspace.org/~jh/dial/ > > Happy dialling! > > John >
