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<div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space">I designed a small macro to draw a “tear”-shaped curve using \psbezier. It works as expected.
<div class="">For simplicity, I wrote it with features related to the coordinate axes.</div>
<div class="">Then, I tried to create a new macro, “blip”, which gives a translate of this picture to a specified position.</div>
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<div class="">I tried two options (see attached example) .</div>
<div class="">In the pdf, the lower figure is generated using just the \tear macro, while the upper one is generated using the \blip macro.</div>
<div class="">The \blip figure has some extra lines—I suspect they are caused by my use of \pscustom to create the translated picture. </div>
<div class=""> I followed the example on p. 130 of Herbert Voss’s “Pstricks” (in the English translation).</div>
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<div class="">I thought I could get away with just defining \blip using \tear without a \pscustom envelope, but if I comment out the \pscustom part like this:</div>
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<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>\newcommand{\blip}[5]{%\pscustom{% usage:\blip{A}{B}{a}[b}{c} = \tear{a}{b}{c} moved so (0,0)->(A,B)</div>
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I get an error message, that \tear is undefined (it is still present in the file, preceding this definition).</div>
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Can anyone suggest how I can translate the picture generated by \tear without introducing the extra lines? I know this is probably a pretty stupid issue, but I haven’t succeeded in understanding how to</div>
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do it from the LaTeX Graphics Companion (there is a complicated example involving creating nodes, etc., surely there is an easier more direct way).</div>
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