7 Mar
2006
7 Mar
'06
5:13 p.m.
Is there a good program for drawing geometric figures, such as ellipses and hyperbolas; in particular, I'd like to type in the equations, and have it generate a picture that I can save as a bmp file. Once I have a bmp file, I can use Acrobat to generate a pdf, then use that in LaTex.
You should look at MetaPost. It generates Postscript and you can use that directly in LaTeX. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html Russ