Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!oberon!cit-vax!ucla-cs!sonia!khayo From: khayo@sonia.math.ucla.edu (Eric Behr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: TeXtures from Addison Wesley Message-ID: <12095@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 8 May 88 08:57:45 GMT Sender: news@CS.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: khayo@MATH.ucla.edu (Eric Behr) Lines: 17 In article I wrote: >By the way, has anyone used \special{postscriptfile foo} in TeXtures? >A rather trivial PostScript picture works fine with VAX TeX, but throws >TeXtures off the track - lines following the picture are superimposed >(a dark black mess); next page is OK. Any clues ? Thanks in advance. I ran some tests, and I'm sorry for asking a question that was easy to answer. In case there are other people who want to use PostScript, I'll share the outcome: in some PostScript macros I had variables called, oddly enough, x, y etc. Miraculously, when x was changed to, say, xx, the problem went away. It also disappeared when the variables were put in a local dictionary. It seems that the PostScript commands in TeXtures affect TeX storage area, due to the integration (TeXtures probably skips the dvi phase altogether; that's why the problem didn't surface on the VAX, where PostScript gets included by dvi2ps and is therefore isolated from the TeX environment). I hope *someone* will be spared hours of frustration. Eric