Asymptote: Labeling

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Let's say you have a point that you want to label, for example, Point A.

This is extremely simple. First, draw a dot.

dot((0,0));

Now we use the label command.

dot((0,0));
label("A",(0,0));

However, it is likely that this is not what you want your point to look like. We now fix an attribute to this label:

dot((0,0));
label("A",(0,0),S);

The location of the label could also be changed.

dot((0,0));
label("A",(0,0),N);

In fact, you can use North, West, East, South, Northwest (NW), Southeast (SE), etc etc.

Now, lets get fancy with labeling. Let's say we want to label a length. In this case, we can use :

dot((0,0));
dot((1,1));
draw((0,0)--(1,1));
label("The length is $\sqrt{2}$",(0,0)--(1,1),SE);

Notice that I labeled a line.

Even fancier:

dot((0,0));
dot((1,1));
draw((0,0)--(1,1));
label("The length is $\sqrt{2}$",(0,0)--(1,1),SE,green);