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Functional PostScript rect height/width and fractions

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Subject: Functional PostScript rect height/width and fractions
From: stktrc <stktrc@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:15:11 +0100
Organization: News UmU SE
Fractional numbers as width/heigth arguments to (rect pt width height)
results in the width/height being represented using Scheme external
representation of fraction numbers, ie 10/3, in the PostScript output,
which is not understood by PostScript (AFAIK).

Try

(show-w/ps2-text-channel (current-output-port)
                         (stroke (rect (pt 0 0) 0 10/3)))

which will result in 10/3 (as opposed to 3.333333 or something alike)
in the position of a PostScript numeral in the output.

I believe it was just an oversight of the author who forgot to do
PSnum, a FPS utility function to output PostScript numerals, on the
width and height.

Below is a patch that does PSnum on the width and height.

*** ps.path.scm.orig    Fri Aug 23 15:43:17 2002
--- ps.path.scm Fri Feb 28 19:59:30 2003
***************
*** 184,190 ****
        (format port "~d ~d m ~d ~d l ~d ~d l ~d ~d l closepath"
                llx lly urx lly urx ury llx ury)        
        (format port "~d ~d ~d ~d ~a"
!               px py w h
                (case method
                  ((stroke-show stroke-stroke stroke-fill)
                   "rectstroke")
--- 184,190 ----
        (format port "~d ~d m ~d ~d l ~d ~d l ~d ~d l closepath"
                llx lly urx lly urx ury llx ury)        
        (format port "~d ~d ~d ~d ~a"
!               px py (PSnum w) (PSnum h)
                (case method
                  ((stroke-show stroke-stroke stroke-fill)
                   "rectstroke")

IIRC someone (Mike Sperber?) mentioned that some maintenance had been
done to FPS.  If it's ready to be released it would be interesting to
see what has been done.

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