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From: woody@chinacat.unicom.com (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: 0 0 moveto (+) show: how to center the (+)?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.050215.4185@chinacat.unicom.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 05:02:15 GMT
References: <9106020627.AA01346@einstein.physics.buffalo.edu>
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In article <9106020627.AA01346@einstein.physics.buffalo.edu> xiaofei@EINSTEIN.PHYSICS.BUFFALO.EDU (X. F. Wang) writes:
>I need something
>
>x y moveto 
>( symbol ) show
>
>in drawing agraph. The probem is the symbol is not centered at
try something like this
x (symbol) stringwidth pop 2 div sub y moveto (symbol) show
This should compute the width of the symbol, divide it by 2, subtract that
result from the x direction, put the y coordinate on the stack on top of
the x coordinate, ready for the moveto....
Cheers
Woody