PSTricks

PSTricks

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Does ConTeXt have something with the same functionality as PSTricks
and PSFrag?

Giuseppe

Re: PSTricks

[Ed L Cashin]

Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com> writes:

> Does ConTeXt have something with the same functionality as PSTricks
> and PSFrag?

You know about metafun, right?  Well, in case not:

  http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/beta/metafun-s.pdf

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RE: PSTricks

[Dan Seracu]

Hi!
I tried to put PSTricks and ConTeXt together and I did it. Hans suggested to
load the module pstric

\usemodule[pstric]

or something. I think too that PSTricks has some advantages over metafun.
But I also have a "little" question:
Is it possible to use PSTricks to overlays (theoretically yes, but in
practice....)

Seracu Dan
PS. How is the working on the translation to Italian?
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Does ConTeXt have something with the same functionality as PSTricks
and PSFrag?

Giuseppe

RE: PSTricks

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:34 AM 4/9/01 +0300, Dan Seracu wrote:
>Hi!
>I tried to put PSTricks and ConTeXt together and I did it. Hans suggested to
>load the module pstric
>
>\usemodule[pstric]
>
>or something. I think too that PSTricks has some advantages over metafun.

What is it that you miss in metafun then? [pstricks will never work with
pdftex, but mp can]

>But I also have a "little" question:
>Is it possible to use PSTricks to overlays (theoretically yes, but in
>practice....)

I don't know since i never use pstricks, but i suppose that it will work
okay. 

Hans
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Re: PSTricks

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:16 PM 4/9/01 +0200, Damien WYART wrote:
>* Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> [010409 12:31]:
> 
>> [pstricks will never work with pdftex, but mp can]
>
>What about pdftricks, then ? [ Not tested by myself ]

hm, sounds new, will need to take a look at it

The main complication with pstricks is that it uses ps for calculations;
passing each one to e.g. mp or a calculation script is not efficient, and
using tex for that purpose needs a rewrite of pstricks; and in some
occasions awareness of the history / page is needed as well as font
handling. So, one solution is to make those pictures into independent ones,
use for instance gs to convert them, and merge them into the page stream
[as can be done with eps]. Real complicated interaction with the page could
be a problem, but as with all things, there is possibly a solution. This is
not so much different from using mp runtime. 

My main problem with pstricks is its inaccuracy [althoyghj i admit that i
only looked into it on behalf of ppchtex which used pictex first, pstricks
as second option, and in context metapost by default].

if there is a real need for it i can look into pdftricks and see if it can
be supported [i wonder what nice dirty trick is actually used -)] 

Hans    
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Re[2]: PSTricks

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Monday, April 09, 2001 Dan Seracu wrote:

DS> Hi!
DS> I tried to put PSTricks and ConTeXt together and I did it. Hans suggested to
DS> load the module pstric

DS> \usemodule[pstric]

DS> or something.

Ok. Thanks to all that answered this question (btw, I didn't really
need to use PSTricks, but I need it when defending ConTeXt vs LaTeX).

DS> PS. How is the working on the translation to Italian?

Translation of what?

Manual? Unless I get the source (hint, hint, Hans
;->) I won't be able to do anything about it.

Interface/messages? Well, still "alphaing" my way around (for
untraslated things, either I don't know what they are for, and thus
cannot translate them, or I haven't yet seen them (esp. for newer
functions).

Why do you want to know, btw?

Giuseppe