Crossfire was once rumoured to have said:
> Nick Croft was once rumoured to have said:
> > Crossfire wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to achieve, but if you're
> > > trying to perform a global modification of the positioning of the
> > > output, whynot just use translate?
> > >
> > > C.
> >
> > Global modification? Well not for all the lines where the height reference
> > is greater than 700.
> >
> > Why do this? There's all these pattern matching statements to expunge
> > the unwanted words. I though one more statement to change a few numbers
> > wouldn't be such a big ask.
> >
> > Why not just use translate? Fair enough, but will it be any better than /e
> > at targeting the height reference. I assume you mean the tr that you can
> > use with =~ .
>
> Ugh, brane wasn't working this morning - now I know what you're trying
> to do.
>
> Try prepending to your postscript document:
>
> /moveto {
> dup 700 gt { 50 add } if moveto
> } bind def
>
> That'll add 50 to the y coordinate of any moveto statement called with
> a y > 700.
>
> Just note that some things are *far* easier to do in postscript. ;)
replace the gt with lt if you want it to affect y<700.
I really need to drink more caffeine.
C.
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