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Many thanks for your answer. I'll try to learn from Metafun macros. (Well, I'll try -- but Mr. Hagen macros are usually too clever for my stupid brain.) As for the PSTricks, I used them some years ago -- before I found MetaPost. I like MetaPost because: 1) the TeX code and figures are in separate files and are compiled separately -- it makes work much faster and reusing code is easier 2) MetaPost allows me calculate figures easily -- most my figures are economic graphs -- most of them is not drawn, but calculated (they are not data charts) 3) MetaPost is well intergrated with ConTeXt, so I have to use it anyway -- I can forget PSTricks and clear my brain :-) Yours Michal Kvasnicka >Before you reinvent round objects called wheels please look over >the additional facilities provided by Pstricks, which can be run using >Context and the approproiate module.m-pstric.tex. Instructions >are embedded in the module. It may well be that the kind of >diagrams you are seeking to create in Metapost are already >available via Pstricks. There is a very readable Pstricks manual and a >supplement. > >How do Pstricks and Metapost differ? Well Pstricks is a higher >level language, aimed at creating specific things like x/y >charts, tree diagrams and so on. Matrapost is a lower level, more >generalized facility. Most tasks can be done in either. Common >cases will be more easily handled in Pstricks. More unusual >situations will require the more general power of Metapost. > >John Culleton > > > > >_______________________________________________ >ntg-context mailing list >ntg-context@ntg.nl >http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >