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From: beck@skuld.cs.cornell.edu (Micah Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Drawing a large circle in LaTeX
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Date: 15 Oct 89 23:10:17 GMT
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In article <4369@yunexus.UUCP> mathieu@yunexus.UUCP (Pierre Mathieu) writes:
>I am trying to get LaTeX to give me a large circle in \picture mode, 
>larger than the largest which it appears to accept, apparently 40pt.
>I would like to know if anyone has suggestions on the best way to proceed.
>What I want is basically an 80pt circle.

The easiest way to so this is to use some LaTeX graphics mechanism which
does not rely on fixed size circle fonts to draw circles.

The simplest is PiCTeX, which draws circles with a whole lot of period
characters ('.'), but may run out of TeX memory.

EEPIC is a package which produces special graphics commands (tpic specials)
in the DVI file and must be used with DVI drivers which support them.

Most of these are avaiable by anonymous FTP from svax.cs.cornell.edu
in directory ~ftp/pub/tex-figures.  However the PiCTeX manual must be
purchased from TUG at a cost of $30, I think.

Micah Beck
Cornell CS