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naren@cs.UAlberta.CA (Narendra Ravi) writes:

>In an earlier article I write:

>: LaTeX picture environment limits the slopes for lines. But the PIC
>: language provides a decent mechanism for drawing lines of any slope in the
>: troff environment. Is there something similar in LaTeX?

>I received email indicating the following solutions.

>1. EEpic macros which can draw lines of any slope. The limitation being
>   the slope has to be specified as integers.

	Only the point coordinates are integers, with a scale factor
	applied which can be any dimension.  As far as I know there is no
	limitation on the slope.  

	You will need a previewer which implements the tpic specials.  xdvi
	is one.  Of course your printer driver must do the same.

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