From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54449 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Curiouslearn Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Pstricks and Asymptote Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:40:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3b4b12310911170540o4715ef2ege3f9eb175ab0775d@mail.gmail.com> References: <200911161543.20151.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <3b4b12310911161457s37d837eic14397ebe823b5a2@mail.gmail.com> <200911170813.29351.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258465230 29578 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 13:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:30 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 17 14:40:23 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 1NAOIB-0002aN-GZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE293C9A70; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:59 +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 bZUs23+IND7l; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B905DC9AAF; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F23C9AAF for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:54 +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 2t8Em1QfCDWv for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-pz0-f179.google.com (mail-pz0-f179.google.com [209.85.222.179]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6413C9A70 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by pzk9 with SMTP id 9so4188887pzk.16 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Yu4EAbiREH7sI14CDgWVOyfiS9Lk/zLZrNMQlsPCe0A=; b=Slf1d0tYTTElYcSxGAqvtRzIRUPRAQI7PeggT+Ni5Hfx5rmbvtqP5V/f03io4zKar3 lZemASDtZSy6+UpoHmJkd7N/p8hXaUCcRWePVvzQJ1lSdQ+PDTJ1IokN8+t24PuX3DRX gErKho+h2aOAAs+xdMqYotERoG0ez/fjczECg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NmiAX+JSEg5ZP7PVbfqevuVpPivtNsFJCsMjlSYi1bevrDJ332WBuLIu6MebY6aKlD ogNlyUOJ+agyXYM5TrdlKl3PXwP9JvPhMZk6XDZq7k8Y+A5CwEK1s2Jvk5L2KovO/9r2 8XlqorIDWxMns/XCDP+dB4QePVWsKWezILOuk= Original-Received: by 10.142.55.20 with SMTP id d20mr985352wfa.37.1258465204701; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:40:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200911170813.29351.alan.braslau@cea.fr> 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:54449 Archived-At: 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. Similarly, Asymptote allows one to find intersection points of any two paths (even nonlinear paths). I am not sure whether Metapost can do that. I keep reading that Taco is working on development of Metapost. However, I am not sure what exactly has changed. If there is any new documentation, I would love to read it. Thanks. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009 23:57:28 Curiouslearn wrote: >> Thanks everyone for replying. >> >> Alan, the tikz module does not work with MKIV. From what I have read >> before, it seems it will not unless the creator of tikz makes some >> changes to tikz package so that it works with Context. I am not sure >> how likely that is. >> > > I know that tikz is (currently) not working under mkiv, but I choose to i= gnore > this as I expect that this will be fixed. I have not been concerned with = this, > as I no longer actively use tikz. Indeed, since learning (and still learn= ing) > metapost, I find it far superior: cleaner syntax, much more powerful... T= ikz > is/was a very welcome addition to laTeX, but metapost, whose syntax is mo= re > closely related to plain TeX, is more coherent with ConTeXt. So I now fin= d the > syntax of tikz uncomfortable under ConTeXt. > > I still sometimes use LaTeX for the submission of articles to scientific > journals (in particular using RevTeX), but I now use ConTeXt > (\startTEXpage\stopTEXpage) to make the figures (that must be submitted as > separate files in any case). > > Alan > > P.S. What I really liked about tikz is the quality of its documentation, = in > particular the tutorial that is very clear. The documentation for metapost > (and metafun) is very good, but not so easy. *We* need to write a good > tutorial! > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > 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-co= ntext > webpage =A0: http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive =A0: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki =A0 =A0 : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________