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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 5-11-2 on page 267.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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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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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.83385pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pstricks}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}[showgrid=true](-1,-1)(3,3)
  \rput[lb]{L}(-0.5,0.5){ordinate}
  \rput(1.5,-0.5){abscissa}
  \rput{*0}(0,0){at the origin}
  \rput[rB](3,3.25){top right}
  \rput[rb]{R}(3.25,0){bottom right}
  \rput*[lb]{45}{diagonal overwrite}
  \rput[rB]{45}(3,3){diagonal}
  \rput*(1.5,1.5){\textbf{center overwrite}}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}