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Native support for drawing & labeling Euclid-Elements-style figures?

Anonymous User
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Posted 8 years ago

Here are examples of the kinds of figures I want to generate in Mathematica:

from Joyce's online Elements

from Mathworld

In particular, I want to label various points, line segments, and angles. I also want to show X and Y axes, so I'm assuming I should be using Graphics[] rather than Graph[] (but I am a novice at this).

I know how to draw the circles and triangles; but I find no native way to add the labels. Have I missed it? Or do I need to calculate the x and y coordinates for each label myself, and then place some text at those coordinates? Have I overlooked native Mathematica functionality designed for this task?

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Posted 8 years ago

Thanks. I have been proceeding with Graphics, and it is not as laborious as I had feared. I appreciate the full control it gives me over the layout, as I try to tune the appearance. The resources you link to sound very interesting.

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