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<div><h1>renderStaircase -- draws staircases of an initial ideal.</h1>
<div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2>
<ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>renderStaircase(I) \n renderStaircase(d,I) \n renderStaircase(F,I) \n renderStaircase(F,d,I) \n renderStaircase(d,n,L) \n renderStaircase(F,d,n,L)</tt></div>
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<li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>F</tt>, <span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___String.html">string</a></span>, filename of the xfig file that is produced</span></li>
<li><span><tt>I</tt>, <span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Ideal.html">ideal</a></span>, of which to draw the staircase.</span></li>
<li><span><tt>L</tt>, <span>a <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___List.html">list</a></span>, of ideals of which to draw their staircases.</span></li>
<li><span><tt>d</tt>, <span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, number of boxes to be drawn along each axis</span></li>
<li><span><tt>n</tt>, <span>an <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span>, number of diagrams per line</span></li>
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<div class="single"><h2>Description</h2>
<div><div>Renders the staircase of a monomial ideal (or a list of monomial ideals) in three variables. The output is put into an xfig file if a filename is provided. If no filename is provided then macaulay uses fig2dev to make a png which is displayed by the operating system (see <a href="../../Macaulay2Doc/html/_show.html" title="display various TeX, hypertext, or a URL, in an external application">show</a>).</div>
<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : QQ[x,y,z]
o1 = QQ[x, y, z]
o1 : PolynomialRing</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : I = ideal "x4,y4,z4,xy2z3,x3yz2,x2y3z"
4 4 4 2 3 3 2 2 3
o2 = ideal (x , y , z , x*y z , x y*z , x y z)
o2 : Ideal of QQ[x, y, z]</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i3 : J = ideal "x4,y4,z4,x2y2z2"
4 4 4 2 2 2
o3 = ideal (x , y , z , x y z )
o3 : Ideal of QQ[x, y, z]</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i4 : null -- renderStaircase(I)</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i5 : null -- renderStaircase("twostairs.fig", 6,2,{I,J})</pre>
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<div>To run the examples above, ommit the <tt>null -- </tt>. The first command will display the staircase of <tt>I</tt> while the second writes the image of both <tt>I</tt> and <tt>J</tt> to file.</div>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>renderStaircase</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>renderStaircase(Ideal)</li>
<li>renderStaircase(String,Ideal)</li>
<li>renderStaircase(String,ZZ,Ideal)</li>
<li>renderStaircase(String,ZZ,ZZ,List)</li>
<li>renderStaircase(ZZ,Ideal)</li>
<li>renderStaircase(ZZ,ZZ,List)</li>
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