From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54455 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Pstricks and Asymptote Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:57 +0100 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <200911171606.57738.alan.braslau@cea.fr> References: <200911170813.29351.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <3b4b12310911170540o4715ef2ege3f9eb175ab0775d@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258470428 17159 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 15:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:07:08 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 17 16:07:01 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NAPe1-00067T-Bo for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33023C9B0D; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:40 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id M3QInGdUqzQ0; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E49CC9ABB; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91824C9AAA for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:35 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id mwNuP7p1VN4o for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47895C9ABB for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:04:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2658B4C8161 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from iram-hb-003386.localnet (cev75-1-81-57-248-225.fbx.proxad.net [81.57.248.225]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5494C80F6 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:06:35 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <3b4b12310911170540o4715ef2ege3f9eb175ab0775d@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:54455 Archived-At: On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:40:04 Curiouslearn wrote: > I tried Metapost last year for a few graphs and liked the fact that it > is tightly integrated with Context. I found John Hobby's document a > good place to learn it and then used Hans' Metafun to learn further. > The reason I am looking at Asymptote and pstricks is because they have > libraries or functionality which Metapost lacks. For example, the tree > drawing library in pstricks. If Metapost has such a library I don't > know since I cannot find any document that explains the new things > added to Metapost other than what is mentioned in Metafun(2001). As > you said documentation is lacking. pgf/tikz has a nice tree building function. pgfplots is a fairly evolved and active data plotting package. Concerning metapost, graph.mp is pretty powerful, but is missing some functionality. piechartmp is also available (although I never use pie charts!) featpost and mp3d give some nice, basic, 3d capability. metagraph, metaobj, ... It would be interesting to see a good tree drawing macro package under metapost; I have yet to take the time to see what is out there. The ConTeXt community (and via the minimals distribution) can keep this active... So much to do! Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________