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[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks
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Holger Sparr |
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[AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks |
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Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:02:13 +0200 |
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Ralf Angeli schrieb:
> * Holger Sparr (2007-06-14) writes:
>
>> there exists an old pstricks.el:
>>
>> <URI: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/pstricks.el>
>>
>> I tried to rewrite this code.
>
> What's the reason for rewriting it?
I wasn't really satisfied with the input of point coordinates. Since it
is possible to use named nodes (which I used a lot), it is quite
inconvenient being asked for a x- and y-coordinate each time when you
just want to enter a single character for a node name and to edit the
inserted string (it contains a comma as a number separator) after input.
So I tried to modify the code to enter: "x,y" or "node name" at once.
When looking into the code I found,
- a lot of defined variables which were IMO of not much use
- outdated PSTricks macros (the original file dates back to 2002)
- macros which were added to the known symbols but had no argument
support
- and functions which could be simplified.
So the wish to rewrite the code wasn't really there in the first place.
But in the end, I was more than just adding a new feature.
I integrated some AUCTeX functionality too, which can certainly be
improved but wasn't really there in the beginning.
> I haven't used PSTricks yet. Do you have some summarizing documentation
> about the covered (and perhaps missing) functionality?
Okay, an overall commentary and a todo list for the style file is
missing by now, which did not seem too important to me at that stage.
I think the basic PSTricks macros are covered by now and the style file
could be useful for PSTricks users. Of course a lot of macros are still
missing but can be added easily with the provided functions.
Holger
(Looking forward to any further questions and comments.)
--
- [AUCTeX-devel] Style File for PSTricks, Holger Sparr, 2007/06/14
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Style File for PSTricks, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/16
- [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks,
Holger Sparr <=
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/19
- [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, Holger Sparr, 2007/06/19
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, Ralf Angeli, 2007/06/19
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, David Kastrup, 2007/06/19
- [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, Holger Sparr, 2007/06/20
- Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: Style File for PSTricks, David Kastrup, 2007/06/20