Re: XYpic

[Vit Zyka <vit.zyka@seznam.cz>]

luigi.scarso wrote:
> Vit Zyka wrote:
>>
>> before I started to use context I had prepared some diagrams in xypic. 
> 
> Me too, for some notes on a course  on commutative algebra when I was 
> student at university.
> 
>> It was the only way I knew for creating vector graphics for both tex 
>> and pdftex with text and graphics interaction possibility.
>>
> I try xfig with poor results.

With 'interaction possibilitity' I meant e.g. text labeling with the 
same fonts and possibilities as in the main text (math...), length 
parametrization. It is not possile in xfig.

>> 3) Metapost is naturaly incorporated to context, strongly supported, 
>> higher possibilities and (my opinion) much more intuitive.
>>
> Yes, I love metafun.
> But a mp graphic must be preprocessed by mpost for inclusion, and I can 
> do it only
> if I can execute sysytems commands; this open a security and performance 
> issues.

It is true only for very advanced features like text along line, AFAIK. 
For framed text it is possible to run mpost manually with several passes 
of tex.

> So:
> "Can I typeset a framedbox with a rulestyle WITHOUT using MetaPost ?"

(Rulestyle?) Frames with only plain \hrule and \vrule is of course 
possible even with plain TeX. But it is probably not what you mean.

vit