Re: Pstricks and Asymptote

[Curiouslearn <curiouslearn@gmail.com>]

I think I should give Metapost a try. There are two reasons, I tried
out asymptote
(i) Its syntax seems easier to remember
(ii) It can find intersections of curves (not only straight lines)
quite easily.

Can Metapost do the second? Anyhow, I am going to give it a try again
to see if I like it.

Thanks.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 20:35, Curiouslearn wrote:
>> Thanks to all who made some suggestions about where I can find
>> Metapost libraries. Will look into those.
>>
>> It seems Asymptote + Tikz  is a good way to go and also try out Metapost again.
>>
>> Mojca, you  said that number of pstricks users are decreasing.
>
> I didn't say that it's decreasing. I just said that it's really low,
> but I meant ConTeXt users with that. There are still plenty LaTeX
> users around.
>
> The main problem is that PS Tricks cannot be very well integrated
> unless one uses tex->dvips, but ConTeXt doesn't use that for ages and
> there is basically no support for dvi in ConTeXt either.
>
>> Is this
>> amongst Context users, or in general amongst all users who use
>> pstricks. If the overall number of users is decreasing then perhaps I
>> don't want to spend time learning it as it won't have new features in
>> the future. I don't like its syntax, though it can do neat things.
>
> Are there any "neat features" that you won't to do, but cannot do with
> TikZ? (I'm sure there are some, but I'm also sure that 99% of drawings
> can be done in a very similar way in TikZ as well unless there is a
> well-developed PSTricks library around that's missing in TikZ.)
>
> Asymptote is very similar to MetaPost. The main reason why I would
> want to use it is to draw 3D, else I would go for MetaPost since it's
> much faster and better integrated when used within ConTeXt.
>
> Mojca
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