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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 8-3-4 on page I-604 in "Extended or changed commands".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{111.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[pstarrows]{pict2e}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{picture}(100,90)
\put(0,0) {\line(0,1){90}} % vertical at 0,0
\put(0,40){\line(1,0){15}} % horizontal at 0,40
\put(20,40){\small \LaTeX{} arrow heads used}
\linethickness{4pt}
\put(0,55){\vector(1,0){15}} \put(0,70){\vector(1,0){50}}
\put(0,85){\vector(1,0){100}}
\ltxarrows
\put(0,30){\vector(1,0){15}} \put(0,15){\vector(1,0){50}}
\put(0,0){\vector(1,0){100}}
\end{picture}
\end{document}