From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54487 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Curiouslearn Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Pstricks and Asymptote Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:20:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3b4b12310911171220m5d3a4fbbk3eeb5f86dd7c6acd@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00911170857p2903203fr87d382bda1304701@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00911170901q14ff5b3cyc5df66a6800cb7b6@mail.gmail.com> <4B02DBF1.3090008@wxs.nl> <6faad9f00911171021p1df4e1f5k85ec8cfca34373e6@mail.gmail.com> <3b4b12310911171135o6b02de29l73e48c8c581afb9e@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00911171159t69b1667ble184c40d96760e54@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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258489218 21903 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 20:20:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:20:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 17 21:20:11 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 1NAUX5-0007EV-C0 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5B6C9B07; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:49 +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 bdJOLrjcbiDm; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C36C9AB7; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F90C9AB7 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:44 +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 j2hapZ49p-m7 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-pw0-f55.google.com (mail-pw0-f55.google.com [209.85.160.55]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E45CC9A8A for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:17:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by pwj19 with SMTP id 19so205487pwj.34 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:00 -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=3gy8xg39uxWYu7MySP4yZbGZle9h5bt0KZWNGm93Dd8=; b=E5RSex19cSBRfslXknkRNEOIWAPPs/K2fN+gS3UcQaMxOwa57jWAs60gRZtlZgCqEr Xpe/lTkXGPDTXXaRUzWaPYvGulg2/6pMAEoCvacTHqsfi55L9fVJUEWnTAtmpMMBzazw qWTpWI3ZVOR3KZULo89CbhLXaZwENYuk71D+4= 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=G2mnbIZ/eZYcuGAuKKtPYCCca0qsxQhYrIj7QYKNahYhIyl1fAezsk3eJEu3LutmVI 4cxVsQRf4GFhxalHh8f//yAGCgecKQZGZHEOtdSAUvQfLhgIr8Q+O/l5Dc0M8S11oAGy 90OXkZvRjofuRCJHTBFQbIw3gZ5aUVhJiZk6U= Original-Received: by 10.143.138.4 with SMTP id q4mr1118852wfn.186.1258489200431; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:20:00 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00911171159t69b1667ble184c40d96760e54@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:54487 Archived-At: 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 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 =A0is a good way to go and also try out Metapo= st again. >> >> Mojca, you =A0said 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 > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________