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From: rsingh@elaine0.stanford.edu (Rajesh Kumar Singh)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Printing Zipcode bars using tex/latex
Summary: Zipcode, tex, latex
Message-ID: <1991Feb7.175608.5783@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 91 17:56:08 GMT
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Hello,

Has anyone tried  writing a command in tex or latex
that would print the Zipcode bars?  Something like
\zipcode{12345}{1234} that prints the long and short
vertical bars as mass mailing companies and postoffice
do.  Ideally, this should work with just one argument
as well for the case one doesn't have a zip+4 number.

aeems recursive enough to require only a few lines of
latex.  Comments,  ideas, solutions?

--raj
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