Introduction

XThe TEX typesetting system is a powerful tool in the preparation of the Xwritten word, yet when the time comes to add figures or pictures to a document, Xone traditionally had to resort to tedious manual paste-up. XWith the advent of the PostScript page description language, Xwhich allows the `nesting' of environments and is rapidly becoming Xa de facto standard, it is now possible to merge graphics Xdirectly into a document. psfig provides the facility for the Xnested inclusion of a PostScript figure in a TEX document. XX

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