A Tour of Graphical Typesetting on the Macintosh

This article began as a comparative review of Macintosh programs for producing publication-quality graphics, inspired by one for IBM-style personal computers [Roman 19911. It has evolved into a discussion of three distinctly different graphing environments, namely, Mathematica, P I W , and PSMathGraphsII, and their use with a standard word-processor (Microsoft Word) and/or a mathematical text-processor ( O z w ) . For anyone contemplating graphical typesetting, I recommend the excellent discussions by an author and a publisher [Doob 1989; Gilchrist 19891. I intend to give here just a peek at the tip of the graphical icebergs awaiting the intrepid mathematician; the diagrams in this article do not alone tell the whole picture of the graphical capabilities of the three software environments.