[OS X TeX] PStricks

[Alan Munn]

At 10:59 AM -0500 4/9/07, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine wrote:
>Greetings!
>
>I am trying to figure out PStricks which seems to be a very powerful tool.
>
>After some Googling I produced this simple tex file using TeXShop:
>
>=======================================================
>%! program = pdflatex

Should be %! TS-program = latex

>
>\documentclass[12pt]{article}
>\usepackage{geometry} % see geometry.pdf on how to lay out the page.
>There's lots.
>\geometry{letterpaper} % or letter or a5paper or ... etc
>
>\usepackage{pstricks,pst-node,pst-tree}
>
>\title{Prova PStricks}
>\author{SEI}
>\date{\today}
>
>%%% BEGIN DOCUMENT
>\begin{document}
>
>\pstree[]{\TR{RootNode} }{
>	\TR{D1}
>        \pstree{ \TR{D2} }{
>	             \TR{D2.1}
>                     \TR{D2.2}
>                              }
>	\TR{D3}
>	\TR{D4}
>                    }
>
>\end{document}
>========================================================
>
>I try to run it and obtain the following error message:

pstricks must be run with latex + dvips NOT with pdflatex.  Your 
document will work if you typeset it with TeX + Ghostscript.

If you're just interested pstricks for tree drawing, I would 
recommend qtree (available on ctan) which works with pdftex and has a 
very easy to use interface.  It's mainly for drawing linguistic trees 
but may work well for your purposes too.

\usepackage{qtree}
\Tree [.RootNode D1 [.D2 D2.1 D2.2 ] D3 D4 ]

(The tree doesn't look exactly the same,  although that could be 
fixed with lowerlevel commands )

Alan



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