From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10803 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens-Uwe Morawski Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaTricks? Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:16:41 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030206141641.20382ab9.morawski@gmx.net> References: <14421271667.20030205223819@iol.it> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044537245 2649 80.91.224.249 (6 Feb 2003 13:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18glqs-0000gQ-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:14:02 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A9D10B97; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:16:03 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 89C3210B86 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:13:34 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 22366 invoked by uid 0); 6 Feb 2003 13:13:33 -0000 Original-Received: from port1413.fra.ginko.net (HELO melior.localdomain) (212.202.67.143) by mail.gmx.net (mp013-rz3) with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 13:13:33 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <14421271667.20030205223819@iol.it> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10803 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10803 On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:38:19 +0100 Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > I was wondering if anybody (say, for example, Hans ;>) has ever > thought about developing a (Con)TeX(t)+Meta(Post|Fun) counterpart of > PSTricks? PSTricks is widely used, but has the disadvantage of not > being usable for direct PDF creation; a purely "texmf"ish way to > handle the stuff would be rather nice. Hmm, PSTricks consists of two parts: a) a TeX-part that provides a user-interface and writes the PS-specials in the dvi-output b) a set of PS-macros that provides a varity of interesting features a) could be implemented, but in contrast to PSTricks it generates MP/MetaFun code. This is, for example, the way how the flow-chart module works. b) could be done partially, since PS as full featured programming language provides many more capabilities than TeX/MP/MFun together So, what do want or what is missing in your opinion, since some of the PSTricks features are already available in ConTeXt/MFun. Jens