[OS X TeX] Drawing parametric curves for Beamer

[William Slough]

Hi Tim,

This may or may not address your issue, but have you considered
exporting your graph as a PDF, which can then be included in your
LaTeX document with the graphicx package?

Bill Slough

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Tim Brophy <timbrophy at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I am trying to draw the two curves f(x) = x^3 + 4 and its inverse g(x) = (x-4)^{1/3}. I produce the graphs in GeoGebra and use its facility to export to PGF/TikZ to get
>
> \documentclass[10pt]{article}
> \usepackage{pgf,tikz}
> \usepackage{mathrsfs}
> \usetikzlibrary{arrows}
> \pagestyle{empty}
>
> %<<<<<<<WARNING>>>>>>>
> % PGF/Tikz doesn't support the following mathematical functions:
> % cosh, acosh, sinh, asinh, tanh, atanh,
> % x^r with r not integer
>
> % Plotting will be done using GNUPLOT
> % GNUPLOT must be installed and you must allow Latex to call external programs by
> % Adding the following option to your compiler
> % shell-escape    OR    enable-write18
> % Example: pdflatex --shell-escape file.tex
>
> \begin{document}
> \definecolor{qqqqff}{rgb}{0.,0.,1.}
> \definecolor{ffqqqq}{rgb}{1.,0.,0.}
> \begin{tikzpicture}[line cap=round,line join=round,>=triangle 45,x=1.0cm,y=1.0cm]
> \draw[->,color=black] (-7.025,0.) -- (14.53,0.);
> \foreach \x in {-6.,-4.,-2.,2.,4.,6.,8.,10.,12.,14.}
> \draw[shift={(\x,0)},color=black] (0pt,2pt) -- (0pt,-2pt) node[below] {\footnotesize $\x$};
> \draw[->,color=black] (0.,-6.625) -- (0.,7.865);
> \foreach \y in {-6.,-4.,-2.,2.,4.,6.}
> \draw[shift={(0,\y)},color=black] (2pt,0pt) -- (-2pt,0pt) node[left] {\footnotesize $\y$};
> \draw[color=black] (0pt,-10pt) node[right] {\footnotesize $0$};
> \clip(-7.025,-6.625) rectangle (14.53,7.865);
> \draw[line width=1.2pt,color=ffqqqq,smooth,samples=100,domain=-3.025000000000002:6.530000000000006] plot(\x,{(\x)^(3.0)+4.0});
> \draw [color=ffqqqq](1.345,6.065) node[anchor=north west] {$f(x)=x^3 + 4$};
> \draw [color=qqqqff](1.66,-1.045) node[anchor=north west] {$f^{-1}(x) = \sqrt[3]{x-4}$};
> \draw[line width=1.2pt,color=qqqqff, smooth,samples=100,domain=-3.07000000000001:6.57500000000001] plot[parametric] function{6.123233995736766E-17*(t+0.0)+t**(3.0)+4.0,t+0.0-6.123233995736766E-17*(t**(3.0)+4.0)-0.0};
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \end{document}
>
> Unfortunately the WARNING means nothing to me!
>
> I am using the GUI TeXshop on a Mac and know nothing about the Shell.
>
> Is there any way around this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Tim Brophy
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