Re: ConTeXt +Tioga

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Jilani Khaldi wrote:
> 
>>>interesting (i assume that it produced pdf) 
>>> 
>>
>>Yes with the difference that while Metapost, Asympthote and GLE 
>>(http://glx.sourceforge.net/)  use their own proprietary language to do 
>>PDF graphics, Tioga(*) uses Ruby, a full featrured and very nice 
>>language. I even see more presence in the future of Ruby in ConTeXt. Isn'it?
>>  
> well, if we can have \ruby {...} as we will have \lua {...} 

It is just my 2c, but I really dislike the Tioga approach. It feels
like typesetting a book in TeX by writing a single-shot pascal
program. ;-)

Specifically, I find code like this (Tioga):

   move_to_point(x0, y0)
   append_curve_to_path(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3)

far uglier than this (Asymptote/MetaPost):

   z0.. controls z1 and z2 .. z3

Taco