From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31227 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \sometxt bodyfontsize in staticMPfigure (2006.09.27 beta) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:01:58 +0200 Message-ID: <4524BBF6.2030606@wxs.nl> References: <451B78FE.2030808@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 1160035370 2623 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 08:02:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 08:02:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 05 10:02:45 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 1GVOBS-0001bf-SI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:02:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA9261FEC3; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:02:21 +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 06928-02-6; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:02:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9CAC1FEBD; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:02:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483041FEBD for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:02:05 +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 06928-02-5 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:01:59 +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 38E001FEB9 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:01:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 11439 for ; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:01:56 +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:31227 Archived-At: Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >> this is runtime tex into passed to the graphic ... imagine that we flush >> this to the mp file ... it can contain info that is not known in that >> session (like overlay info) which willbreak the mp run >> >> the issue here is that a static graphic is processed in another, >> independent run, that's the whole idea behind static graphics (quick >> hack for independent graphics) >> >> we can spend a lot of time to make it more advanced but within a year >> from now we will have mp as a library in tex which willreduce runtime to >> nearly zero (at least that 's what experiments show) so .... >> > > Even when mp is available as a lib, it will not reduce runtime to > nearly zero? The time to start a mp process will be negligible, but > processing an mp file will still take time. In the mp diagrams that I > have, processing each diagram takes about 10 sec [1]. Occasionally > you mean that mp needs 10 sec per graphic? impressive > there are around 10-15 diagrams and compiling all of them takes about > 2 minutes. With statics, the time for calculating the md5 sum of each > mp file is negligible, and I can work with diagrams sources and text > in the same file. Even after mp is available as a library, I will need > statics > . > > [1] metaobj is slow. I really hope that sometime in the future, > metapost gets programming abilities of a real language. Maybe > asymptote already does this, but it is too latex oriented. > try to find funding for taco to do luapost -) 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------