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Article #7919Re: Help needed
From: Jos Vos
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 10:50
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 1989 10:50
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In article <1511@murdu.OZ> morrow@murdu.OZ (Christopher Morrow) writes: >I have been trying to learn some postscript from the Postscript >Cookbook and tutorial (blue). I was trying to use the circular text example >towards the end of the book. I cannot get it to go. ... It's quite simple: because the code is showed in a proportional font (which should never be done) you did read the "( )" as "()". If you know a little bit more of PostScript (I don't blame you! - the book is just for people that want to learn it) you will read it automatically as "( )" because of the statements behind it. > () dup 0 charcode put insideplacechar For example... (It appears a few times in the text, I think.) Have fun. -- -- ###### Jos Vos ###### Internet jos@idca.tds.philips.nl ###### -- ###### ###### UUCP ...!mcvax!philapd!jos ######
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!purdue!decwrl!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!philapd!ssp15!jos From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Help needed Keywords: Cookbook, Recipes, No go Message-ID: <905@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 1 Feb 89 10:50:53 GMT References: <1511@murdu.OZ> Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands Lines: 21