From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \sometxt in staticMPfigure Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:00 +0200 Message-ID: <451A3034.8000205@wxs.nl> References: 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 1159344227 30968 80.91.229.2 (27 Sep 2006 08:03:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Sep 27 10:03:38 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 1GSUNw-0007Nf-Qp for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F261FECE; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:14 +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 08160-02; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6B491FEB0; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0FE21FEB0 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:07 +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 08449-05 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:03:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id D91771FE9D for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 10219 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:02:58 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:31050 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Hans Hagen 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------