Functions for Arts

Summary of my two-day work

  1. my HTML slides
  2. You may view the source code of this blog to see the source files.

Goal

To provide an introduction to the formal definition of functions for arts stream students.

I aim to

  1. minimize the calculations
  2. use daily-life examples
  3. favor pictures over text.

IT skills used

Inkscape

  1. C-S-a for alignment.
  2. C-S-f for boundary and colors, and line patterns (i.e. arrows).
  3. C-S-d for document size.
  4. clipping process:
    1. prepare the object to be clipped.
    2. prepare the clip, which is on top of the previous object.
    3. select ObjectClip and then the first option from the top menu.

dvisvgm

Use the TEX → DVI → SVG route with latex and this tool with options --font-format=woff and -b 5 -R -d 2 to save file size and to ensure that the SVG can be correctly opened on Inkscape.

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