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% Chapter 1 from Asymptote tutorial Jim Hefferon
\chapter{A first graphic}
Making an \Asy{} input file is like making a \LaTeX{} input file,
so you already have a feel for the basics.
To start,
use your favorite editor to open a file \path{asy/unit_circle.asy}.
\begin{minted}{Bash}
jim@millstone:~/Documents/asy_tut/src$ cd asy
jim@millstone:~/Documents/asy_tut/src/asy$ emacs unit_circle.asy
\end{minted}
Type this text into the file and save it, or
copy it from this document's online source.
\begin{center}
\inputminted{Asymptote}{chapter1/asy/unit_circle.asy}
\end{center}
Get the output file \path{unit_circle.pdf} by running \Asy{} on the source.
\begin{minted}{Bash}
jim@millstone:~/Documents/asy_tut/src/asy$ asy unit_circle
\end{minted}
%$ Make auctex recognize end of "math"
You can see the result in any PDF viewer.
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{chapter1/asy/unit_circle.pdf}
\end{center}
\section{What do we have here?}
The input \path{unit_circle.asy} illustrates a number of things.
Globally, it shows that you must declare variables such as line~12's
\mintinline{Asymptote}{theta}, that
commands end with a semicolon,
and that comments are preceded by a double slash,
\mintinline{Asymptote}{//}.
Locally, line 2's \mintinline{Asymptote}{settings.outformat}
variable fixes the format of output files to PDF so we needn't remember
each time to do that from the command line.
Line~4's \mintinline{Asymptote}{import}
is like a \LaTeX{} \mintinline{TeX}{\usepackage{...}} in that
it gives us access to a module, a collection of related commands and data.
In this case it
gives us commands to make plots.
In this drawing we only use its axis-making commands
but the second chapter has more about plots.
In line~6 the \mintinline{Asymptote}{unitsize(1.5cm)} command means that
if we describe a point $(x,y)$ then \Asy{} will interpret it as the
location $x\cdot 1.5\text{\,cm}$ and $y\cdot 1.5\text{\,cm}$ from the origin.
Line~9 is self-explanatory.
Lines~12 through~15 draw the line segment from the origin to the
point labeled $(\cos\theta,\sin\theta)$.
(On line~15, in addition to drawing the dot, \Asy{} labels it and
the \mintinline{Asymptote}{E} puts that label east of the dot.)
% Note that if after seeing the drawing we decide to adjust the angle
% then we just need to change one number, on line~12.
Finally, lines 18 and~19 draw the axes.
These commands have many options, most of which we did not use here,
and we will see more of them later.
One more thing.
\Asy{} gets the point label $(\cos\theta,\sin\theta)$ and the axis labels
by putting the given strings in a small file,
running \LaTeX{} on it, and then extracting the result back into the
output graphic.
So your labels have access to all of \LaTeX's capabilities.
\section{Adjustments}
After you get a graphic draft there are always some tweaks.
First, here the axis labels are too big.
We will replace \mintinline{Asymptote}{"$x$"}
with \mintinline{Asymptote}{"\scriptsize $x$"}.
(We could instead omit the label by deleting the entire
string and the comma after it,
which illustrates that commands
such as \mintinline{Asymptote}{"xaxis(..)"}
can have a variable number of arguments.
While you are working you may want to have open the \Asy{} reference
for a list of the options.)
Second, the dot showing the generic point on the unit circle is too big.
In the revised source below we've adjusted the size by inserting
\mintinline{Asymptote}{dotfactor = 4} in line~22
(the default factor is $6$).
Finally, the $(\cos\theta,\sin\theta)$ label is in a different font than
the other mathematics in this overview.
We want that \Asy, when making the small \LaTeX{} document to create the
in-graphic text,
will use the same font setup as the main \path{.tex} file.
So below we added a
\mintinline{Asymptote}{texpreamble("..")};~the
string is long so for readability we've spread it across multiple lines.
\begin{center}
\inputminted{Asymptote}{chapter1/asy/unit_circle_after.asy}
\end{center}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics{chapter1/asy/unit_circle_after.pdf}
\end{center}
\section{Include the graphic in a \LaTeX{} file}
Open a new \LaTeX{} file \path{main.tex}.
\begin{minted}{Bash}
jim@millstone:~/Documents/asy_tut/src$ emacs main.tex
\end{minted}
Enter this text
or copy it from this document's source.
\begin{center}
\inputminted{TeX}{chapter1/main.tex}
\end{center}
This document shows two ways to include the graphic.
Line~11 is straightforward because
after you've iterated through some adjustments to the figure then you
use \LaTeX's standard \mintinline{TeX}{\includegraphics{..}}.
The other way, commented out,
uses the \mintinline{TeX}{asymptote} \LaTeX{} package
to include the \Asy{} source file with
\mintinline{TeX}{\asyinclude{..}}.
In this approach, getting the graphic is a three step process, where
you run ``\mintinline{Bash}{pdflatex main}'' (of course
you can instead use ``\mintinline{Bash}{xelatex main}'' or
``\mintinline{Bash}{lualatex main}''), then you go into
the \path{asy/} subdirectory and run
``\mintinline{Bash}{asy <latex-filename>-1}''
(here, ``\mintinline{Bash}{asy main-1}''), then go back to the
\LaTeX{} file's directory and run ``\mintinline{Bash}{pdflatex main}'' once more.
In either case here is the one-page output.
\begin{center}
\framebox{\includegraphics[page=1,scale=0.325,trim=0.25in 5.9in 0.25in 0.25in]{chapter1/main.pdf}}
\end{center}
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