[Xy-pic] Re: XY-pic

[Ross Moore]

Hello Josué,

On 25/09/2004, at 8:25 AM, Josué Huff Jung wrote:

> Hello,
> I’m  from Brazil and I study mathematic. Please,could you answer  
> me a question? I built a lattice as follows:
>
> \xymatrix{
> &\bullet \ar@{-}[dl] \ar@{-}[d] \ar@{-}[dr]  & \\
> a \, \bullet &\hspace{.3cm} \bullet\,{b} & \bullet \, c \\
> &\bullet \ar@{-}[ur] \ar@{-}[u] \ar@{-}[lu] &}
>
> I would like the lines touch the bullets. What must I change above?  
> Could you help me?

You can get close to what you want, using  *=0{\bullet}
in those cells where the bullet is leftmost within the cell;
e.g.

\xymatrix{
&*=0{\bullet} \ar@{-}[dl] \ar@{-}[d] \ar@{-}[dr]  & \\
a \, \bullet &\hspace{.3cm} \bullet\,{b} &*=0{\bullet}\drop+!L{\, c}\\
&*=0{\bullet}\ar@{-}[ur] \ar@{-}[u] \ar@{-}[lu] &}


But to get the 'a' and 'b' cells right too requires a bit more:

\xymatrix @C+.3cm @R+.1cm{
&*=0{\bullet} \ar@{-}[dl] \ar@{-}[d] \ar@{-}[dr]  & \\
*=0{\bullet}\drop++!R{a}&*=0{\bullet}\drop++!L{b}&*=0{\bullet}\drop++! 
L{c}\\
&*=0{\bullet}\ar@{-}[ur] \ar@{-}[u] \ar@{-}[lu] &}

Here the 'a', 'b', and 'c' are just labels on the \bullet nodes,
and do not contribute size to the cells.
In fact this is closer to the role that those letters play
in the mathematics that you are representing.

Note how the spacing of rows and columns is adjusted using:
      \xymatrix @C+.3cm @R+.1cm {
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -------  spacing modifiers


Even better, in my opinion, is to use  \xygraph instead of
having redundant blank cells in the \xymatrix .
For example,

\xygraph{
  !{0;p+/r1.3cm/:p+/u1.1cm/::}  % setup the row/column grid spacing
  []*@{*}
  ( - [dl]*@{*} (?*++!R{a}, - [dr]*@{*}="bot")
  , - [d] *@{*} (?*++!L{b}, - "bot" )
  , - [dr]*@{*} (?*++!L{c}, - "bot" )
  )
}

This is neater coding, and better captures the overall structure
of your diagram.

Furthermore, Xy-pic's "filled circle" object, generated by *@{*},
is already of zero size, so you don't need to work with  \bullet
at all.



> Thanks so much!

You're welcome,

	Ross Moore


> J. H. Jung
>
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