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Hi,

I've been looking for a PSTricks macro that will return the distance between 2 nodes. I was also wondering if there's a macro that returns the coordinates of a node. Do either of these macros exist?

Hi,

I've defined a pstricks node as follows:
Now, I want to center a short line of text on it, but I don't know how. Can someone help?

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could suggest a 'multicolumn' package that suits my needs? At the moment I've been using the 'multicol' package to create 2 columns on a page as in the following code fragment:


\usepackage{multicol}
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\begin{multicols}{2}
This line ends up in the 1st column ...

Hi,

Maybe I'm worrying unnecessarily, but it concerns me that all latex variables names that I can define are global and have the potential to clash with the hundreds (or thousands) of other names found in the myriad of packages that can be used.

And, it annoys me somewhat that latex variables can ...