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pstricks: where is tvz@Princeton.EDU ?!

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From: Christian Schytt
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:22
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I have desperately tried to get in touch with tvz@Princeton.EDU
supposedly the e-mail address of the author of the pstricks TeX
package. So, with no alternatives, I turn to comp.text.tex.

I am calling to comment on the PSTRICKS package, v0.91.

The package is GREAT, and I'm gonna use it a lot --- no question about
that!

The installation of PSTRICKS went smoothly. I used

	dvips, version 5.41 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software

to convert the dvi/\special output into postscript. I have tried a few
things out and printed the manual. Everything seems to work right,
except...

I have some diagrams that vary in size, pretty much so, and I would
like to clip the \pspicture environment (I use LaTeX).

So, I replaced the \pspicture command used with \pspicture* and got
the following TeX error dump as a consequence:

 --------------

! Undefined control sequence.
\@clipbox ...er \wd #1 \tx@ClipBox }\box \pst@box
                                                  }
\endpspicture ...boxa =\hbox {\@clipbox \pst@boxa
                                                  }\fi \ifx \pst@tempa \@emp...
l.23 \endpspicture
                  *
?
 --------------

OK, something seems to go wrong and therefore I tried some other
clippings:

I could get your page 42 example up and running without any problems,
but when I tried another self-made example, I failed to get any
clipping done. In

---------------

\begin{center}
\psclip{\psframe(0,0)(2,2)}
\psline(0,0)(4,-4)
\endpsclip
\end{center}

---------------

I would have thought that the \psline was clipped to
the \psframe bounds, but that is not the case.

What have I missed ?


With thanks for a great TeX product and in the hope that you can help
me out,

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From: pierre@diku.dk (Christian Schytt)
Subject: pstricks: where is tvz@Princeton.EDU ?!
Message-ID: <1992Jul21.152206.12069@odin.diku.dk>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 15:22:06 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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