From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: need help with creating a grid with context
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:02:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0710100602k1f41f95cpa970ef8b5cc9bc58@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00710100308v15d230baj9bfc9eb07fa9142@mail.gmail.com>
2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote:
>
> > Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately
> > over the whole page.
>
> Why not using MetaPost?
>
> \starttext
> \startMPcode % or \startMPpage
> for i=0 upto 10:
> for j=0 upto 20:
> fill fullcircle scaled 1mm shifted ((i,j) scaled 1cm);
> endfor;
> endfor;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
>
> Mojca
Because TeX is faster in this situation and it takes more time to write
the Metapost code in external file, process this file, convert it into a PDF
file and include it into the document etc.
I know what I say because this was one of the reasons why the sgf module
place the field within TeX and not with Metapost, a matter of speed and you
can reuse the objects.
You should also replace the fullcircle with drawdot in your example, drawdot
renders better on screen and looks better.
Wolfgang
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-10 13:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-10 1:06 MASON Peter J
2007-10-10 10:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-10-10 13:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2007-10-10 19:33 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-10-11 7:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-10 23:33 MASON Peter J
2007-10-09 23:42 MASON Peter J
2007-10-10 8:54 ` Peter Rolf
2007-10-11 7:27 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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