Functional Metapost Tool Demo

Date: 2006-03-09

Time: 11:45

Room: BBL room 471

Speaker: Arie Middelkoop

Title: Programming pictures with Functional Metapost

Abstract

An editor like xfig is commonly used to create pictures for a LaTeX? document. In general, such an editor is the best tool for the job. But there are situations where you would like to program a picture instead of drawing it by hand. For example, when there is a lot of repetition in a (big) picture or when you want to generate your picture depending on some input. Functional Metapost is a combinator library in Haskell that allows you to program pictures for LaTeX? .

During the presentation, I explain how to use Functional Metapost and give some example programs that produce pictures.

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-- ArieMiddelkoop - 06 Mar 2006