2010/7/16 Artimess <[email protected]>: > Thanks Manveru, > I do appreciate your help. Yes I took your advise and looked at Tikz, yes > indeed it works fine with latexpdf and although somewhat complicated to > understand at the beginning, by trail and error I managed to produce almost > what I needed. > Artimess > > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Manveru <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2010/7/15 Artimess <[email protected]>: >> > Hi All, >> > >> > I am having no success on including some pstrick code as I always get >> > errors. If I just put the code in a normal documet and do: >> > latex ->dvi2pdf then it works. >> > It seems to me that pdflatex has some issues with pstricks. Is there >> > any >> > work around for it? >> > Thanks >> > Artimess >> > >> > ps:The sample code that I am using is. yes, I have pstrick and pstree >> > in my >> > preamble >> > >> > \pstree[radius=3pt]{\Toval{root}}{\TC * \TC* \TC* \TC*} >> >> One thing needs to be understand and remembered: pdflatex does not >> understand POSTSCRIPT. So everything further is a little bit tricky. >> >> Please read: http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~fouvry/how-do-I.html >> It may help you understand what you need to have PSTricks working with >> your LaTeX document. I've tried, but getting results is very heavy and >> time consuming tasks. >> >> And, what is worth mention here, LyX does not support such trickery >> execution of different types of LaTeX compilers. Some --shell-escape >> added to pdflatex invocation helps with pst-pdf, but I could cause >> pdflatex to crash every time you do not use PSTrick in your document. >> >> In general, worth to try, but everyday usefulness in minor in my opinion. >> >> On the other hand I heard Tikz gives good results with pdflatex: >> http://www.texample.net/tikz/ but I hadn't chance to try.
It is nice to be helpful. I am glad you were able to express your thoughts on paper using LyX and other LaTeX tools :-) Next time, please, keep the list informed about your success or failures. This is general rule that we all try to keep public communication on the list still public. Thanks. -- Manveru jabber: [email protected] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
