[Tugindia] tugindia Digest, Vol 80, Issue 13

[David Owen]

Hi Manjusha,
Thanks.
D.O.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:00 AM, <tugindia-request at tug.org> wrote:

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> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:06:40 +0530
> From: Manjusha Joshi <manjusha.joshi at gmail.com>
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> Hi,
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> > Can anyone tell me how I may draw, in a Latex document, a 3D-surface
> > together with a tangent plane at a point on that surface with the outward
> > tangent at that point? Is there any Graphics package which will help me
> do
> > this?
> You can use PSTricks to draw such graphs  with LaTeX. This package
> comes with LaTeX. Also there are many specific packages  with
> pstricks.  Advantage of using pstricks is you get same fonts for
> labels of figures with less work. also, quality sharpness and accuracy
> of the figures generated with pstricks is very good.
>
> Here are examples
> http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=examples
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> >is this the correct place to ask this question?
> You can ask this question also on pstricks mailing list. For that
> please refer this link.
> http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi/
> Also  there are plenty  of documentations available on net.
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> Best wishes,
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> Manjusha Joshi
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