Re: UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an
> extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't
> know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing
> list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.

don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be 
different

i'm currently playing with mplib; the default converter works ok; the 
specials handler is reimplemented and mostly finished; and now i'm 
playing with the textual part ... i even got this working ...

\startMPgraphic
     fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor green ;
     n := 50 ;
     for i=1 upto n :
         draw btex goodbye world etex
		scaled 2
		rotatedaround(origin,i*360/n) ;
     endfor ;
\stopMPgraphic

so, btex/etex works ok in a loop; everything happpens in luatex/mplib

it's even acceptable fast ...

100 times the previous graphic (i.e. 5000 btex/etex's) takes .7 seconds 
on my machine


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