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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 5-11-3 on page 268.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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%%  It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%%  of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%%  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](4,4)
  \multirput(0,0)(0.25,0){16}{%
    \psline[linewidth=0.1pt](0,-0.1)}
  \multirput(2,0)(0,0.25){16}{%
    \psline[linewidth=0.1pt](-0.1,0)(0.1,0)}
  \multirput(0,0)(0.5,0){8}{\psline(0,-0.15)}
  \multirput(2,0)(0,0.5){8}{\psline(-0.15,0)(0.15,0)}
  \uput*[0](4,0){$x$}\uput*[90](2,4){$y$}
  \psline{->}(4,0) \psline{->}(2,0)(2,4)
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}