[tex-live] Trouble with pstricks and related packages under XeTeX, OS X 10

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Sep 12, 2017, at 8:37 AM, Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> wrote:
> 
> Not sure if Herbert Schulz' reply came to the list as well
> 
> This draws as it should
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xyling}
> \begin{document}
> \Tree{ &\K{top} \B{dl} \\
> \K{bottom}
> }
> \end{document}
> 
> with latex+dvips on TL2017
> 
> 
> /Lars Madsen
> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Kilu von Prince <watasenia at gmail.com>
> Sent: 12 September 2017 15:12
> To: Lars Madsen
> Cc: tex-live at tug.org
> Subject: Re: [tex-live] Trouble with pstricks and related packages under XeTeX, OS X 10
> 
> Thank you Lars,
> I know that xyling calls dvips, but you can delete that option and
> compile with xelatex, and this used to work for me, but no longer
> does. However, I just discovered that the problem doesn't appear to be
> specific to the new TeX Live distribution. In playing around, I found
> that the same xyling/ pstricks code with the same compiler sometimes
> does display lines and sometimes doesn't, depending on what other
> packages I've loaded. Very strange. I have a visceral dislike for Tikz
> code and just found a setting that displays pstricks trees, so I'll
> stick with that for the time being.
> 
> Best,
> Kilu
> 
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at math.au.dk> wrote:
>> if you look directly at xyling.sty you'll see that it loads xy via
>> 
>> \RequirePackage[color,all,dvips]{xy}
>> 
>> aka it explictly requires dvips, which is not used by xelatex.
>> 
>> Interestingly it does not compile with latex+dvips either.
>> 
>> 
>> BTW: have you considered using a Tikz based approach instead?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> /Lars Madsen
>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@math / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@math
>> 
>> 
>> ________________________________________
>> From: tex-live <tex-live-bounces at tug.org> on behalf of Kilu von Prince <watasenia at gmail.com>
>> Sent: 12 September 2017 09:40
>> To: tex-live at tug.org
>> Subject: [tex-live] Trouble with pstricks and related packages under XeTeX,     OS X 10
>> 
>> I only recently installed the 2017 distribution of TeX Live and now
>> node connections in pstricks and related packages are no longer
>> displayed. I compile with XeLaTeX, under OS X 10. I'm attaching a
>> sample file with a xyling tree and the corresponding pdf.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Kilu
> 

Howdy,

And, if you remove the dvips requirement in xyling.sty it compiles fine with xelatex too.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)