From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34444 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.metapost,gmane.comp.tex.metafont Subject: MetaPost 1.000 announcement Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:03:32 +0200 Message-ID: <463113A4.7020003@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177621490 9659 80.91.229.12 (26 Apr 2007 21:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:04:50 +0000 (UTC) To: metapost@tug.org, ntg-context@ntg.nl, metafont@ens.fr, tex-implementors@tug.org Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 26 23:04:46 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HhB8u-0006OM-Qb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:04:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35651FF04; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:04:31 +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 21197-04-2; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E15720010; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:04:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A161FF0B for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:04:14 +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 20841-02-2 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:03:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9C31FF04 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:03:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:36704 helo=[10.10.0.6]) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1HhB7k-000CzJ-Ml; Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:03:32 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070305) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:34444 gmane.comp.tex.metapost:464 gmane.comp.tex.metafont:413 Archived-At: The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sources and a win32 package can be downloaded immediately from https://foudnry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution. The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry. Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.000: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The use of DSC (document structuring) comments has been been cleaned up, thanks to comments by Michail Vidiassov. * By setting prologues to 2 or 3, you can ask MetaPost to reencode and include the used labels fonts in the output, thus creating proper Encapsulated PostScript files even if labels are present. * Support for greyscale and cmykcolor models is added. * The new drawing options "withprescript" and withpostscript" allow the user to attach PostSCript special text to a specific drawing object. * Setting the new internal "mpprocset" to 1 will make MetaPost create a somewhat extended preamble that defines shortcuts for the postscript commands (e..g "l" instead of "lineto"). For big images, this can help shrink the output a bit. * The pool file is now integrated in the executable, so there is not separate 'mp.pool' anymore, except at build time. * Groff support is redone, and dmp now uses kpathsea searching. Groff related changes are thanks to the efforts of Werner Lemberg and Michail Vidiassov * makempx is now a compiled executable on all systems, thank you Akira Kakuto * The error for 'special's longer then 255 characters is removed, so specials can now be of any length. * There is new turningnumber implementation that attempts to find the mathematically correct "turningnumber" of a path. The formulae are derived from a mailinglist discussion between (especially) Dan Luecking and Giuseppe Bilotta. * The manual is updated and modernized. It is currently maintained by Stephan Hennig and Troy Henderson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost. MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain. The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the mailing list as well. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, April 26, 2007 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________