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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 5-6-2 on page 232.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  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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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=true](2,2)
 { \psset{linewidth=2pt} % key is valid and local!
   \qline(0,2)(2,0)
   \psset{linecolor=blue}
   \qline(0,0)(1,2) }
 \qline(0,0)(2,2)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}