[pstricks] English Rule

[Herbert Voss]

David Arnold schrieb:

> Here's some Metapost code that draws an "English Rule".
> 
>     
> \startuniqueMPgraphic{EnglishRule}{height,width,color}
>     numeric height; height=\MPvar{height};
>     x1=0; x3=\MPvar{width}; x2=x4=.5x3;
>     y1=y3=0; y2:=-y4=height/2;
>     fill z1..z2..z3 & z3..z4..z1 & cycle withcolor \MPvar{color};
> \stopuniqueMPgraphic
> 
> The result looks something like this (attached):
> 
> 
> 
> Can someone show me how to the same thing in PSTricks?

with ordinary LaTeX

\documentclass{article}

\def\ERule{\begin{center}
  \makebox[0pt]{\rule[1pt]{0.5\linewidth}{1pt}}%
  \makebox[0pt]{\rule{\linewidth}{1pt}}%
  \makebox[0pt]{\rule[-1pt]{0.3\linewidth}{1pt}}%
  \end{center}}

\begin{document}

foo
\ERule
bar

\end{document}

Herbert