After looking at LyX a while ago, I've come back and am impressed with the progress. LyX on Mac OS X is just gorgeous.
Anyway, I teach high school math, and would love to use LyX to typeset tests and such. I realize there will be some problems (I need to leave lots of blank spaces for students to work out the answers, for example), but I'm guessing a judicious use of vertical space will fix those. The one thing I'm not sure how to deal with is graphs. Often I need to print the graph of a function and have students identify which function it represents or provide a blank graph on which students graph a function I provide.
In LaTeX I've been using mfpic because it seems an easy way to create PDF compatible files and had commands like \function{-8}{8}{.1}{x**2} which would draw x^2 on a coordinate plane from x=-8 to x=8 graphing a new point every .1.
So, I have two questions:
1) Should I be using something else? Remember I'll mostly be drawing simple coordinate axes with graphs of functions on them.
2) If mfpic is the way to go, can I automate the pdflatex; mpost; pdflatex cycle in LyX so that when I click View all my graphs get inserted correctly?
TIA, Todd
