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Article #1004Re: drawing lines with PostScript
From: Scott Willingham
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:50
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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