On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Paul Menzel <paulepan...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Dear ConTeXt folks, > > > I finally chose MetaPost/MetaFun [1] because of the native integration > with ConTeXt and hopefully easy font handling. I want to use that > throughout my document. > > Of course I hit the first problem. Wanting to draw a “simple” function f > like f(x) = e^x, seems hard to accomplish. I guess I should stress that > MetaPost does not have a high accuracy so it might not be the best > solution [5]. > > There seem to be quite a lot of solutions (mostly macros) on the Web for > this problem so I am wondering if one of them is integrated in MetaFun. > > Here are some of my findings. > > 1. Reading about the graph package by John D. Hobby [2] and which is > also included in ConTeXt [3]. Especially I liked the automatic > coordinate systems. The package seems to only be able to plot graphs > with data points saved in files. So one solution would be to manually > create data files with data points of the relevant function. > > 2. There is an example in the Drexel Physics Wiki [4]. > > 3. Anthony Phan has also created some macros in his `mps` [5 (currently > not accessible)]. > > 4. André Heck uses the macro packages `courbes` and `grille` from > Jean-Michel Sarlat to show some nice examples in his tutorial »Learning > Metapost by Doing« [6]. > > > So what do you suggest? In MKIV you can use Lua to make calculations in floating point, and Metapost to draw the data.
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