Among the most common types of figures for \TeX{} users are those which
are the graphs of functions of a single variable. Hobby recognized this
and constructed a package to accomplish this task. It is invoked by
\MP{} has the ability to construct data (i.e., ordered pairs) for
graphing simple functions. However, for more complicated functions, the
data should probably be constructed using external programs such as
\acro{MATLAB} (or Octave), Maple, Mathematica, Gnuplot, et. al.
A typical data file, say \File{data.d}, to be used with the \File{graph}
package may have contents
This data represents the graph of $f(x)=\sqrt{x}$ for six equally spaced
points in $[0,1]$. To graph this data, the size of the graph must first
be decided. Choosing a width of $144\mathrm{\ bp}$ and a height of
$89\mathrm{\ bp}$, a minimally controlled plot (as in
\autoref{fig:data}) of this data can be generated by
The \File{graph} package provides many commands used to customize
generated graphs, and these commands are fully documented in the
manual~\cite{hobby:graph} for the \File{graph} package.
\begin{figure}
\begin{withattachment}{data.mp}
\centering
\includegraphics{data.mps}
\end{withattachment}
\caption{$f(x)=\sqrt{x}$ using the \texttt{graph} package}
\label{fig:data}
\end{figure}
