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ralphieraccoon / MilSymb

LaTeX package for TikZ based drawing of military symbols as per NATO APP-6(C)
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Echelon and text wrong placement #14

Closed salexgit closed 5 years ago

salexgit commented 5 years ago

Hi

I tried to use this LaTeX package and have immediately faced the issue that symbol echelon and text information is rendered in wrong location. I have attached an archive with a simple Tex file and resulting DVI output. As you can see, echelon and text data from all the symbols is placed at the same location irrespective of the symbol they belong to.

test.zip

Since it works for you, I assume that it could be due to different package versions.

Regards, Alex

ralphieraccoon commented 5 years ago

Hi,

This looks like an issue with DVI, as TikZ uses special postscript code which DVI cannot render properly.

See this TeX.SE question for further details, it looks exactly like your problem, there are some solutions you can try if you have to render to DVI for whatever reason, but I would suggest compiling straight to PDF or PS if at all possible. Unfortunately this looks like something that can't be fixed on my end, so I'll close the issue.

salexgit commented 5 years ago

Hi

Thanks for the hint. I tried to compile straight to PDF, and it worked. Maybe you consider adding some "build instructions" into the documentation so that people know that DVI is not supported properly.

ralphieraccoon commented 5 years ago

Can possibly add a sentence to section 1.3. Thanks.