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diagmac2.sty is a small modification of the diagmac macros written
by John Reynolds (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jcr/) in 1987 and available
from his ftp site (ftp://ftp.cs.cmu.edu/user/jcr) since 2002. The only
modifications to the original package is that restrictions on line
slopes have been removed, on the assumption that the pict2e.sty package
(http://www.ctan.org/get/macros/latex/contrib/pict2e.zip) is being
used. The User's Manual (renamed here diagmac.txt) and the test file
(diagmactest.tex) are as originally released by Reynolds, except for the
replacement of

\input diagmac  

by

\input{diagmac2.sty} 

in the latter. The limitations on line slopes described in the third
paragraph of the User's Manual can be ignored with diagmac2.

At Reynolds's ftp site, there is the following disclaimer:

  These macros are intended for public usage and have not changed in
  many years. Acknowledgement of their usage is not necessary. However,
  neither I nor CMU accept any responsibility for the consequences of
  errors in these macros or their documentation. This is more than the
  usual disclaimer; TEX is a beastly language for programming anything
  complex, and I am not an expert in its use, so that there are probably
  errors lurking in the macros.

In fact, after more than 20 years of intensive use by dozens of
enthusiastic users, it seems that not a single error has been
discovered.

Bob Tennent
School of Computing
Queen's University
Kingston, Canada K7L 3N6
rdt@cs.queensu.ca