Enhancements to the Picture Environment of LTEX

This document describes some new commands for the picture environment of LATEX. Some of the picture drawing commands of LATEX are very low-level. New higher-level commands are implemented and described here. These commands enhance the graphic capabilities of LATEX and provide a friendlier and more powerful user interface than currently existent. Their implementation has been done with the aim of reducing the amount of manual calculations required to specify the layout of objects. With the addition of the commands described in this document, it should be possible to draw more sophisticated pictures with lesser effort than was previously possible.