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Re: drawing lines with PostScript

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From: Erik E. Rantapaa
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:34
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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.

Check out a package called 'texdraw'.  It is available on most of the
TeX archives (especially the European ones). You won't be able to preview
it with 'xdvi', but you can preview it on, say, a NeXT (because it
has display PostScript.)

>-- 
>	Edward Robertson		robertson@cs.indiana.edu
>	Computer Science Dept
>	Indiana University		812-855-4954
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Erik Rantapaa                              rantapaa@math.umn.edu
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