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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.

I'm not exactly sure of all that you need, but what you describe is easily
handled using the excellent "commutative-diagram-like" macro package xypic
from Kristoffer H. Rose. It does use it's own fonts (4), but it may still be
worth a look. Find it as xypicready on diku.dk [129.142.96.1].

--darrel hankerson hank@ducvax.auburn.edu