CTAN upload: plotting data in matlab style,with metapost

[CTAN Announcements]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 Yang Yang submitted metapost macros to plot data in 
matlab style.

Location on CTAN: /graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/matlab
Summary description: MetaPost data plotting
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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matlab.mp ------- Metapost data plotting in matlab style

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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Thanks for the upload

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf