\oval ¶Synopsis:
\oval(width,height) \oval(width,height)[portion]
Produce a rectangle with rounded corners, hereinafter referred to as an oval. The optional argument portion allows you to produce only half or a quarter of the oval. For half an oval take portion to be one of these.
ttop half
bbottom half
rright half
lleft half
Produce only one quarter of the oval by setting portion to
tr, br, bl, or tl.
This draws the top half of an oval that is 3 wide and 7 tall.
\put(5,7){\oval(3,7)[t]}
The (5,7) is the center of the entire oval, not just the center of the top half.
These shapes are not ellipses. They are rectangles whose corners are
made with quarter circles. These circles have a maximum radius of
20pt (see \circle for the sizes). Thus large ovals are just
frames with a small amount of corner rounding.