{VERSION 2 3 "SUN SPARC SOLARIS" "2.3" } {USTYLETAB {CSTYLE "Maple Input" -1 0 "Courier" 0 1 255 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "2D Math" -1 2 "Times" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "Hyperlink" -1 17 "" 0 1 0 128 128 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 } {CSTYLE "2D Comment" 2 18 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE " " 0 21 "" 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "Help Heading" -1 26 "" 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 256 "Times" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 257 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 258 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 } {CSTYLE "" -1 259 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 260 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 261 "symb ol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 262 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 263 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 264 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 } {CSTYLE "" -1 265 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{CSTYLE "" -1 266 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }{PSTYLE "Normal" -1 0 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }{PSTYLE "Maple Plot" 0 13 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 }3 0 0 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0 }} {SECT 0 {SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 7 "Advice:" }{TEXT -1 41 " Gr eek letters and other symbols in plots" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 " " }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 178 "Maple gives you control over the fon ts used in axis labels, titles and other text in plots. In particular , the Symbol font can be used to obtain Greek letters and other symbol s." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 70 "Here are the Symbol characters corr esponding to the lowercase letters:" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 66 "a \+ b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z" }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 257 51 "a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t \+ u v w x y z" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 80 "(these may not line up cor rectly on your screen because of differences in fonts)" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 22 "the uppercase letters:" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 57 "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z" }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 258 53 "A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T \+ U V W X Y Z" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 38 "and various other keyboa rd characters:" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 90 "~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = \{ \} [ ] : ; \" ' < , > . ? / | \\ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 \+ 0" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 259 84 "~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ - + = \{ \+ \} [ ] : ; \" ' < , > . ? / | \\1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 12 "You can use " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 19 "convert([n], bytes)" }{TEXT -1 29 " to produce chara cter number " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 1 "n" }{TEXT -1 20 " as a string, where \+ " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 1 "n" }{TEXT -1 9 " is from" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 116 "1 to 255. Here is a table of all the characters in the \+ Symbol font, 30 per line. The font contains only characters" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 99 "32 to 126 and 161 to 254 (character 32 is a bla nk space, and 240 may be missing on some platforms)." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 " " {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 4 "n " }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 12 " 33 " }{TEXT 260 57 "! \" # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - \+ . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; `" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 7 " 60 \+ " }{TEXT 261 63 "< = > ? @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T \+ U V W X Y " }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 6 " 90 " }{TEXT 262 118 "Z \+ [ \\ ] ^ _ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w\n" }{TEXT -1 4 "120 " } {TEXT 263 28 " x y z \{ | \} ~ " }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 30 "161 \226 \227 \230 \231 \232 \233 \234 \235 \236 \237 \240 \+ " }{TEXT 264 108 "\241 \242 \243 \244 \245 \246 \247 \250 \251 \252 \+ \253 \254 \255 \256 \257 \260 \261 \262 \263\n180 \264 \265 \266 \+ \267 \270 \271 \272 \273 \274 \275 \276 \277 \300 \301 \302 \303 \304 \305 \306 \307 \310 \311 \312 \313 \314 \315 \316 \317 \320 \321 " } }{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 4 "210 " }{TEXT 265 63 "\322 \323 \324 \325 \326 \327 \330 \331 \332 \333 \334 \335 \336 \337 \340 \341 \342 \+ \343 \344 \345 \346 \347 \350 \351 \352 \353 \354 \355 \356 \357 " }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 4 "240 " }{TEXT 266 34 "\360 \361 \362 \363 \+ \364 \365 \366 \367 \370 \371 \372 \373 \374 \375 \376 \377 " }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 218 "You can \+ copy characters from this table and paste them into your input line. \+ The characters will look different in the Maple input line, because th is is in a different font, but they can be plotted in the Symbol font. " }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 4 "The " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 9 "titlefont" }{TEXT -1 3 ", " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 9 "label font" }{TEXT -1 6 ", and " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 4 "font" }{TEXT -1 75 " opti ons apply to the plot title, labels on the axes, and text produced by \+ " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "textplot" }{TEXT -1 20 " respectively. The " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "axesfont" }{TEXT -1 157 " option applies to the numbe rs beside the axis tickmarks. In the case of the Symbol font you spec ify this option as a list, the first item being the string " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 6 "SYMBOL" }{TEXT -1 62 " and the second the font size i n points. The default font is " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 13 "[HELVETICA,9]" } {TEXT -1 25 " for all of these except " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 9 "titlefont" } {TEXT -1 23 ", where the default is " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 16 "[TIMES,ROMAN, 14]" }{TEXT -1 1 "." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 " " {TEXT -1 16 "Thus to produce " }{XPPEDIT 18 0 "alpha - omega" ",&%&a lphaG\"\"\"%&omegaG!\"\"" }{TEXT -1 52 " centred at the point [1,1] in a plot, you could use" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 12 "wi th(plots):" }}}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 42 "textplot([1,1 ,`a - w`], font=[SYMBOL,12]);" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 87 "Of cour se, you would hardly ever use this alone: instead you could combine on e or more " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "textplot" }{TEXT -1 32 " results with ot her plots using " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 7 "display" }{TEXT -1 1 "." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 89 "Interesting eff ects can be produced by combining symbols if they can be placed correc tly." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 12 "For example:" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 299 "p1:= textplot([1,1.5,convert([243],bytes)], \+ font=[SYMBOL,15]):\np2:= textplot([1,1.3,convert([245],bytes)], font=[ SYMBOL,15]):\np3:= textplot([1.25, 1.4, `x dx`], font = [TIMES,ROMAN, 15]):\np4:= textplot([1.2, 1.5, `2`], font = [TIMES, ROMAN, 12]):\np5: = plot(x^3/3, x=0..2):\ndisplay(\{p1,p2,p3,p4,p5\});" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 252 "However, the alignment of the parts of the formula ch anges if the size of the plot changes, and is likely to be quite diff erent in printed output than on the screen, so this is not a satisfact ory way to obtain \"typeset\" mathematical formulas in plots." }} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 128 "In the c ase of axes, note that a plot can only have one set of axis labels, wh ich must all be in the same font (selected by the " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 9 " labelfont" }{TEXT -1 230 " option). Thus you could not use the Symbo l font for one axis and Helvetica for the other. What you could do, however, if using normal axes (rather than boxed or framed), is speci fy one of the axis labels as the empty string " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 2 "``" }{TEXT -1 9 " and use " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "textplot" }{TEXT -1 150 " to produce the label instead. This can't be done for boxed or framed ax es, because the labels would be outside of the plotting region. For e xample:" }}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 113 "display(\{ plot( x^2, x = -1 .. 1, labels=[x,``],axes=normal),\n textplot([-.1 ,.5,'a'],font=[SYMBOL,10])\});" }}{PARA 13 "" 1 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 113 "The same technique can be used to change the position of axis labels, which often interfere with tickmark labe ls." }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 9 "See also:" }{TEXT -1 2 " " }{HYPERLNK 17 "plot[options]" 2 "plo t,options" "" }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "textplot" 2 "textplot" " " }{TEXT -1 2 ", " }{HYPERLNK 17 "display" 2 "plots,display" "" }}} {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 22 "M aple Advisor Database" }{TEXT 256 18 " R. Israel, 1997" }}}{PARA 0 " " 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{MARK "0 23 1" 63 }{VIEWOPTS 1 1 0 1 1 1803 }