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Name	Date	Size		Description
Makefile	2005-03-07	406 bytes	download
README	2005-03-07	1 Kbyte	download	Shown below
example.mp	2005-03-08	533 bytes	download
latexmp.mp	2005-04-07	15 Kbyte	download
lstmp.tex	2005-03-07	4 Kbyte	download
matlab.mp	2005-03-08	9 Kbyte	download
matlab.tex	2005-03-08	5 Kbyte	download
sample_data	2005-03-08	266 bytes	download
simple.mp	2005-03-08	700 bytes	download
user_guide.pdf	2005-03-08	54 Kbyte	download

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Contents of the README file

matlab.mp ------- Metapost data plotting in matlab style

Yang Yang yangyang@juggler.ucsd.edu

March 3 2005


Matlab has powerful data plotting ability, but one annoying problem
prevents it from being perfect: when you increase the linewidth, the
dotted line size stays the same, so the plotted line no longer looks
like a dotted line.

another problem is matlab bug: it oftern cuts away some curves and
captions.

plus, matlab is expensive. on the other hand, the free gnuplot also
doesn't produce very satisfactory visual effects.


I got accustomed to matlab's easy interface. so I want to integerate
the powerful graphic function of Metapost and the easy interface of
Matlab. so I wrote this script matlab.mp. this is based on graph.mp, I
just collected the data into 2-D arrays, and remembered the line
styles, so it's easy to plot out legends.

FEATURES:
all kinds of line color, width, style (dotted/dashed, etc), and
markers. you can easily expand this by modifying the code.

easy interface. very similar to matlab

full power of latex in caption/legends, by using the latexmp package.

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