🚀 go-pugleaf

>In article <AA11414.9207221251.Victoria@uk.ac.city> da188@city.ac.uk writes:
>>special graph paper to aid in designing diagrams on paper before typing
>>the commands into the document. Can someone tell me how I set about creating
>>this special graph paper? The book mentions using \multiput somewhere...
>>


Here is the LaTeX file that produces what you want.
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%
\documentstyle{article} 
%
%  Change page dimensions
\textwidth=8.0 true in
\textheight=8.5 true in
\columnwidth=\textwidth
\oddsidemargin=-.5 true in	% actually .5 in
\evensidemargin=\oddsidemargin
\topmargin=-.2 true in		% actually 0.8 in
%
%  Turn off page numbers
\pagestyle{empty}
%
\begin{document}
%
% make cute title
\begin{center}
\Huge
\LaTeX\\
Picture Paper
\end{center}
%
% move grid down
\vspace{.25 true in}
%
% make grid with only 8 major commands
\begin{picture}(500,500)(-30,0)
  % teeny lines
%    \linethickness{0.1pt}
%    \multiput(2,0)(2,0){249}{\line(0,1){500}}
%    \multiput(0,2)(0,2){249}{\line(1,0){500}}
  % small lines
    \thinlines
    \multiput(10, 0)(10, 0){49}{\line(0,1){500}}
    \multiput( 0,10)( 0,10){49}{\line(1,0){500}}
  % use thick lines for larger grid
    \thicklines
    \multiput(0,0)(50, 0){11}{\line(0,1){500}}
    \multiput(0,0)( 0,50){11}{\line(1,0){500}}
  % horizontal labels
    \newcounter{cnt}
    \multiput(0,-10)(50,0){11}{\makebox(0,0)[t]{\arabic{cnt}}
	\addtocounter{cnt}{50}}
  % vertical labels
    \setcounter{cnt}{0}
    \multiput(-10,0)(0,50){11}{\makebox(0,0)[r]{\arabic{cnt}}
	\addtocounter{cnt}{50}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}