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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Herbert - that works well!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I need to use the distance between the nodes to
define other things within LaTeX.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can this command be simply modified to get the
result back from the PostScript calculation into LaTeX?<BR>i.e, to get the
distance into a LaTeX length variable.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>%Usage:
\setDistance{length}{NodeA}{NodeB}</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>\def\setDistance ...<BR>...</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>\newlength{\distanceAB}<BR>\pnode(0,0){A}<BR>\pnode(3,4){B}<BR>\setDistance{\distanceAB}{A}{B}</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Douglas<A
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