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`"' special: Literal PostScript
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  For simple graphics, or just for experimentation, literal PostScript
code can be included.  Simply use a `\special' beginning with a double
quote character `"'; there is no matching closing `"'.

  For instance, the following (simple) graphic:

  [ picture of a grey triangle ]

was created by typing:

     \vbox to 100bp{\vss % a bp is the same as a PostScript unit
       \special{" newpath 0 0 moveto 100 100 lineto 394 0 lineto
       closepath gsave 0.8 setgray fill grestore stroke}}

  You are responsible for leaving space for such literal graphics, as
with the `\vbox' above.