Re: @Place (was: Problems with @CentredDisplay in @Rotate sections)

[Michael Renner]

Jeff Kingston wrote:
> > @Place x{left + 5.9cm} y{top - 6.2cm}
>
> The current User's Guide states that Lout units of measurement
> should be used in @Place, so the above example should be

Thanks for clarifying that, the code in question is a few years old and 
was written/tested with lout 3.25...

> It may have been different long ago.  Unfortunately, Lout is
> not clever enough to recognize when illegal PostScript is being
> passed through, so it fails to complain when something inside
> x or y is wrong.  You could type "peanut butter flavoured ice cream"
> inside x or y and not get an error message.

A more "fascistic" parser might be helpful ;).


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