Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ coordsys | '\numbline' Command not working

[alpg49]

I'm following all the instructions for creating a numberline. Any time I invoke the coordsys package, it fails to create a PDF file. Here's the code:

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\documentclass[14pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage[center]{coordsys}

\begin{document}
\large 
\begin{center}
Math \newline
College Algebra \newline
Test 1 \newline
September 21, 2011 \newline\newline
\end{center} 
%\begin{picture}(20,2)(-7.5,-1.5)
%\numbline{-7.5}{12.5}
%\end{picture}
\end{document}

Note that the use of \numbline is commented-out.

[localghost]

To your code.

• The package option is »centred«, not »center«. But you don't need to give it explicitly since it is default (see package manual).
• There is no »14pt« font size option for the used document class.

It seems that the command only accepts integer values. The example from the manual works fine.

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\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{coordsys}

\begin{document}
  \begin{picture}(200,20)(-75,125)
    \numbline{-75}{125}
  \end{picture}
\end{document}

The package uses the old-fashioned picture environment which has heavy limits. Packages like pgf/tikZ or PSTricks are much more sophisticated and therefore preferable.

And next time please use the code button when posting code.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten