I am writing a short tutorial for my friends about PSTricks. So I have to systematically explain the available macros such as \nput, \rput and \uput (among others) and reduce the possibility of confusion that might happen to my friends.
I am also confused with the naming convention adopted by PSTricks for the macros above. What do n, u, r actually stand for? And what did the author want them to behave specially?
If one macro can be replaced by other macros without much effort, I will suggest the reader to forget it and use the more powerful ones. Remembering many macros (with slightly different feature but replaceable) seem to be difficult for the beginners.
\rput, the others are convenience commands building on\rputfor special situations. – Andrew Swann Mar 11 '13 at 11:13\rputis not the basic command. – Mar 11 '13 at 11:53\psput@, which is used by all others. And _ variant_ means only the use but not the command itself. And there are a lot of other put commands. – Mar 11 '13 at 12:25\rputin the pstricks documentation, where it is described as the most basic command.\psput@is not a user level command, however you are correct that the other comands build on\psput@rather than\rput. – Andrew Swann Mar 11 '13 at 19:31