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Re: drawing lines with PostScript

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From: Scott Willingham
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:50
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In article <1992Apr9.155715.10826@news.cs.indiana.edu>
  edrbtsn@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Ed Robertson) writes:
>I am looking for TeX macros which would generate PostScript,
>using \special, to draw lines.  I know that this makes it machine
>specific, but since all of the printers in our department are
>PostScript printers, I feel pretty safe.
>
>From the TeX side, I would expect a macro something like
>  \linene(x,y)
>that would create a box with dimension x X y with a line drawn
>from the SW to the NE corner.  A similar macro \linenw would
>draw lines with negative slope.  Of course they could be
>fancier, but this is about the simplest thing I could think of.

You should get Rokicki's dvips program from some archives.  The
included manual describes such things in sufficient detail to do
what you require.

-- Scott Willingham // willing@icsl.ucla.edu
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