From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31380 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Bowman Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt + asymptote Date: 14 Oct 2006 23:04:49 -0600 Message-ID: <20061015050449.17213.qmail@wizard.math.ualberta.ca> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160897784 30018 80.91.229.2 (15 Oct 2006 07:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 15 09:36:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GZ0Xg-0001vx-BA for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:36:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717A71FEC3; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:36:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10523-09; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:36:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72B481FEA3; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:35:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C7C41FDF8 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:05:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17677-06-2 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:04:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eddy.math.ualberta.ca (eddy.math.ualberta.ca [129.128.207.36]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A8F81FDE6 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2006 07:04:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 22397 invoked from network); 15 Oct 2006 04:59:36 -0000 Original-Received: from localhost (HELO wizard.math.ualberta.ca) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Oct 2006 04:59:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 17214 invoked by uid 9062); 15 Oct 2006 05:04:49 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:35:55 +0200 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31380 Archived-At: Hi all, As requested some time ago on this list, Asymptote 1.14 (a modern MetaPost replacement) now supports alternate TeX engines via the -tex option: -tex engine TeX engine ("latex|pdflatex|tex|pdftex|none") ["latex"] Other engines (presumably including ConTeXt) can easily be added in settings.cc. General affine transforms and clipping of labels is now implemented via PostScript or PDF specials (as appropriate). So if ConTeXt can handle TeX specials, adding support for it should be straightforward. We also input the tex graphics and picture packages; presumably something like them is accessible to ConTeXt too. If someone comes up with a diff for ConTeXt, please post it (as a patch under the link News) at asymptote.sourceforge.net Regards, -- John Bowman University of Alberta