From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27382 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt +Tioga Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:47:22 +0200 Message-ID: <4449FBAA.2030305@elvenkind.com> References: <4448FF23.6000801@nibua-r.org> <444905A3.2060005@nibua-r.org> <44490C2E.6030407@wxs.nl> <44492499.5020006@virgilio.it> <44492E10.6080605@wxs.nl> <444939F0.5070207@virgilio.it> <4449DF99.4060102@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145699203 20689 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2006 09:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 22 11:46:41 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1FXEhH-00009T-RZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AF1127A3; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24222-01-5; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E62A1276B; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0541276B for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24222-01-4 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 93CED126F8 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:46:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:43031 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1FXEh7-000OQ6-N8 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:46:25 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4449DF99.4060102@wxs.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27382 Archived-At: 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