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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 6-2-30 on page 347.
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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,pst-node}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{pspicture}(0.5,0)(4,3)  \large
  \psset{nodesep=3pt,linearc=0.3,boxsize=2mm}
  \rput(3,3){\rnode{A}{1}}
  \rput(1,1){\rnode{B}{2}}
  \ncarcbox[arcangle=60]                     {A}{B}
  \ncarcbox[arcangle=-60,linecolor=lightgray]{A}{B}
  \ncarcbox[arcangle=-60,linecolor=blue]     {B}{A}
\end{pspicture}
\end{document}