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%%  A DANTE-Edition example
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%%  Example 16-02-15 on page 233.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2011 Herbert Voss
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%%  of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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% Show page(s) 1
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\documentclass[]{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength\textwidth{177.70511pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}

\usepackage{pstricks,pst-node}

\begin{document}
\cnode(0.5,0){.5cm}{root}%
\cnode*(3,1.1){4pt}{A}\cnode*(3,0){4pt}{B}%
\cnode*(3,-1.1){4pt}{C}
\psset{nodesep=3pt}
\ncline{root}{A}  \ncput*[nrot=:U]{above}
\ncline{root}{B}  \ncput*[nrot=:U]{on}
\ncline{root}{C}  \ncput*[nrot=:U]{below}
\par\vspace{3cm}
\cnode(0.5,0){.5cm}{root}%
\cnode*(3,1.1){4pt}{A}\cnode*(3,0){4pt}{B}%
\cnode*(3,-1.1){4pt}{C}
\psset{nodesep=3pt}
\ncline{root}{A}  \ncput*[nrot=:L]{above}
\ncline{root}{B}  \ncput*[nrot=:R]{on}
\ncline{root}{C}  \ncput*[nrot=:D]{below}
\end{document}