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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: small pentagon and hexagon in TeX/LaTex
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Date: 11 Jun 91 19:25:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.172800.1460@eng.umd.edu>, barsam@eng.umd.edu (Barsam Marasli) writes:
> 
> How does one draw a small pentagon and a hexagon in TeX/LaTex
> that can fit inside an imaginary circle of radius 0.06in?
> I have tried LateX's picture environment but it doesn't let
> you draw slanted lines that are smaller than certain length,
> and I don't know how to draw a line in TeX.

There is only a fixed number of gradients of lines in the LaTeX picture
environment.  As I understand, this is because a special font is used which
consists of a number of line segments -- hence the restriction.  You could use
Pic (or is it Epic?) which uses the period `.' character to `paint' graphics.
Of course, this results in large DVI overheads...  I find graphics is best done
with a PostScript drawing tool -- include the graphics in the TeX/LaTeX document
using the `psfig' package.  This is only any use if you output to a PostScript
device :-)

> Thanks in advance.
> 
> BM

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