%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 10-1-24 on page 612.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% 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.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{curves}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\setlength{\unitlength}{0.4pt}
\linethickness{0.7mm}
\begin{picture}(400,110)(-10,0)
   \curve(0,0, 40,100, 80,0)
   \closecurve(150,0, 190,100, 230,0)
   \tagcurve(380,0, 300,0, 340,100, 380,0, 300,0)
\end{picture}
\end{document}