My group uses Literate Programming for most of our source code---this means that internal documentation is written using LaTeX. We have been using PStricks for fancy technical diagrams of the system, but have recently been recommended to use TikZ. I've gathered this information: TikZ/PGF is new and maintained; PStricks went a long ti...
Hello I've been trying to get pstricks to work but to no avail. I am using Miktex, and I downloaded the package from it packages manager. But when I try to build it, it always fails: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.1 (MiKTeX 2.8) entering extended mode (C:\xxxx\Desktop\untitled-6.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and h...
I want to define a constant globally within my pspicture environment as follows: Not working example: \begin{pspicture}(10,10) \psgrid \SpecialCoor \def\length{1.2} \pnode(!80 sin 2 exp \length mul 40 sin div 70 sin div 0){C}\uput[-45](C){$C$} % other codes truncated here for simplicity. \end{pspicture} The above example does not wor...
I am working on attempting to draw some geometrical shapes using PSTricks in LaTeX. I'm pretty new to PSTricks, but I've done a few projects with LaTeX. I've discovered the package pst-eucl which has been quite helpful. It has some useful macros for dealing with triangles and such. However, I can't figure out how to draw small arrows on...