https://sandrocirulli.net/tags/linearfunction/ Recent content in LinearFunction on Sandro Cirulli Hugo en-gb Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/how-to-plot-functions-with-latex/ Sun, 20 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/how-to-plot-functions-with-latex/ <figure><img src="../../img/saddle.png" alt="Saddle surface" width="500"> </figure> <p>Following on a previous blog post on <a href="../how-to-draw-fractals-in-latex/">drawing fractals with LaTeX</a>, today I am going to plot functions using LaTeX. As in the previous post, let’s start by preparing the LaTeX environment from scratch:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>sudo apt-get install latex209-base <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> latex209-bin <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> latexmk <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> texlive-full <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> texlive-math-extra <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> texlive-extra-utils <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> texlive-generic-extra <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span><span style="color:#ae81ff"></span> texlive-latex-extra </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The pgfplots package for plotting functions and the standalone package for displaying the graph in a single document need to be installed manually as they are not currently present in the Ubuntu repositories:</p>