{VERSION 4 0 "IBM INTEL NT" "4.0" } {USTYLETAB {CSTYLE "Maple Input" -1 0 "Courier" 0 1 255 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "2D Math" -1 2 "Times" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "Hyperlink" -1 17 "" 0 1 0 128 128 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "2D Comment" 2 18 "" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 } {CSTYLE "" 0 21 "" 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "Help Head ing" -1 26 "" 1 14 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 256 "Tim es" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 257 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 258 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 259 "Symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 260 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 } {CSTYLE "" -1 261 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE " " -1 262 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 263 " symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 264 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 265 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{CSTYLE "" -1 266 "symbol" 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 }{PSTYLE "Normal" -1 0 1 {CSTYLE "" -1 -1 "Times" 1 12 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 }1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 0 1 }} {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 -1 226 " is from 1 to 255. Here is a t able of all the characters in the Symbol font, 30 per line. The font \+ contains only characters 32 to 126 and 161 to 254 (character 32 is a b lank space, and 240 may be missing on some platforms)." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{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 tabl e and paste them into your input line. The characters will look diffe rent in the Maple input line, because this 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 "labelfont" }{TEXT -1 6 ", and " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 4 "font" }{TEXT -1 75 " options 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 -1 155 " option applies to the numbers beside the axis tickmarks . In the case of the Symbol font you specify this option as a list, t he first item being the name " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 6 "SYMBOL" }{TEXT -1 62 " and the second the font size in points. The default font is " } {MPLTEXT 0 21 13 "[HELVETICA,9]" }{TEXT -1 25 " for all of these excep t " }{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" "6#,&%&alphaG\"\"\"%&omegaG!\"\"" } {TEXT -1 52 " centred at the point [1,1] in a plot, you could use" }} {EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 12 "with(plots);" }}}{EXCHG {PARA 0 "> " 0 "" {MPLTEXT 1 0 42 "textplot([1,1,`a - w`], font=[SYMBO L,12]);" }{TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 87 "Of course, you would hardly ever use this alone: instead you could combine one or mo re " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "textplot" }{TEXT -1 32 " results with other plo ts using " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 7 "display" }{TEXT -1 1 "." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 " " {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 89 "Interesting effects can be produced by combining symbols if they can be placed correctly." }} {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=[SY MBOL,15]):\np2:= textplot([1,1.3,convert([245],bytes)], font=[SYMBOL,1 5]):\np3:= textplot([1.25, 1.4, `x dx`], font = [TIMES,ROMAN,15]):\np 4:= 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 chang es if the size of the plot changes, and is likely to be quite differe nt in printed output than on the screen, so this is not a satisfactory way to obtain \"typeset\" mathematical formulas in plots." }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 128 "In the case of a xes, note that a plot can only have one set of axis labels, which must all be in the same font (selected by the " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 9 "labelfon t" }{TEXT -1 230 " option). Thus you could not use the Symbol font \+ for one axis and Helvetica for the other. What you could do, however , if using normal axes (rather than boxed or framed), is specify one o f the axis labels as the empty symbol " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 2 "``" }{TEXT -1 9 " and use " }{MPLTEXT 0 21 8 "textplot" }{TEXT -1 150 " to produc e the label instead. This can't be done for boxed or framed axes, bec ause the labels would be outside of the plotting region. For example: " }}{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])\});" }{TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 113 "The same technique can be used to change the position of axis lab els, which often interfere with tickmark labels." }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}{SECT 0 {PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT 26 9 "See also:" }{TEXT -1 2 " " }{HYPERLNK 17 "plot[options]" 2 "plot,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 "Maple Advisor Database " }{TEXT 256 18 " R. Israel, 1997" }}}{PARA 0 "" 0 "" {TEXT -1 0 "" }}}{MARK "0 39 0" 0 }{VIEWOPTS 1 1 0 1 1 1803 1 1 1 1 }{PAGENUMBERS 0 1 2 33 1 1 }