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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Help needed
Keywords: Cookbook, Recipes, No go
Message-ID: <905@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 1 Feb 89 10:50:53 GMT
References: <1511@murdu.OZ>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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In article <1511@murdu.OZ> morrow@murdu.OZ (Christopher Morrow) writes:

>I have been trying to learn some postscript from the Postscript
>Cookbook and tutorial (blue).  I was trying to use the circular text example 
>towards the end of the book.  I cannot get it to go.  ...

It's quite simple: because the code is showed in a proportional font
(which should never be done) you did read the "( )" as "()".
If you know a little bit more of PostScript (I don't blame you! - the book
is just for people that want to learn it) you will read it automatically
as "( )" because of the statements behind it.

>         () dup 0 charcode put insideplacechar
For example...
(It appears a few times in the text, I think.)

Have fun.

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