Re: \sometxt in staticMPfigure

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>   
>> indeed, another option is to replace more of mp's color stuff by
>> context but then we may end up in other problems
>>     
>
> I'm guessing that pdftex+lua will make it easier to meld tex and
> metapost.
>   
not really, for that we need mp as a library (we did experiments with simulating that but it's kind of tricky) 

concerning lua ... i do have a mkiv file on my machine that uses lua to parse the mp output (precursor to mp natively spitting out such code); currently its a bit slower (two step conversion ps -> lua -> tex) but when using many pen shapes its faster because then we don't need the tex based concat code; also, less (and cleaner) code is needed for parsing 

Hans 

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