Re: Re: v. 6, third argument to rectangle
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- Subject: [mg75890] Re: Re: v. 6, third argument to rectangle
- From: "Drago Ganic" <dganic at vodatel.net>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 05:35:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Andrzej,
thats on purpose because this particular functionality of Rectange is
replaced with the new primitive Inset[] . Therefore Rectange[{a, a}, {a, a},
graphics] is obsolete but it still works because of backward compatibility.
In new applications, we should use Inset[].
Greetings,
Drago
"Andrzej Kozlowski" <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote in message
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> It's true that it works, but the fact that it works seems to be now
> undocumented. Mathematica 5.2 documentation states:
>
> "In Rectangle[{a, a}, {a, a}, graphics], graphics can be any graphics
> object."
>
> but there does not seem to be any such statement in 6.0 (?)
>
> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>
> On 11 May 2007, at 19:30, Jens-Peer Kuska wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> that's nonsense -- Rectangle[] work as in the
>> versions before with a third argument.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Jens
>>
>> rip pelletier wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> thru 5.2 we could display, for example, 2 graphs side-by-side by
>>> using a
>>> third argument to Rectangle, the name of a graphics object.
>>>
>>> 6.0 tells me that i cannot call Rectangle with 3 arguments. (true, it
>>> was a bit of a kludge, and in principle i approve of it going away,
>>> but....)
>>>
>>> what is the replacement?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> rip
>>>
>>
>
>
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- Re: v. 6, third argument to rectangle
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Re: v. 6, third argument to rectangle