From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20136 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vit Zyka Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: XYpic Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:42:16 +0200 Message-ID: <4270BE08.50203@seznam.cz> References: <426E5FA6.3020600@logosrl.it> <58a0167512a8c8eca8721238f25bd090@fiee.net> <426F670F.1050900@seznam.cz> <42709848.4050807@logosrl.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114684825 12616 80.91.229.2 (28 Apr 2005 10:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:40:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 28 12:40:21 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DR6R2-0000MG-Px for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:39:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E712127AA; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:45:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17031-02; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:45:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7042E127F2; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:41:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EA2127F2 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:41:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16719-06-2 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.seznam.cz (smtp.seznam.cz [212.80.76.43]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 10353127AA for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:41:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 19026 invoked from network); 28 Apr 2005 10:41:08 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (vit.zyka@62.240.166.134) by smtp.seznam.cz with SMTP; 28 Apr 2005 10:41:08 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <42709848.4050807@logosrl.it> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0516-6, 20.04.2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20136 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20136 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