Re: Pstricks and Asymptote

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Pstricks and Asymptote
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:22:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B02DBBC.6010404@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00911170857p2903203fr87d382bda1304701@mail.gmail.com>

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 15:12, curiouslearn wrote:
>> The reason I am asking is that eventually all the new Context features will be
>> in MKIV. I want to know what graphics packages I can use with it other than
>> Metapost.
> 
> Answering that question alone: I would go with TikZ. You are free to
> use Asymptote whenever other packages don't satisfy your needs. A
> quick-and-dirty(-and-not-too-fast) support can be implemented easily.

als, even if tikz might have problems with mkiv now (probaly only 
special colors) it has always been shippd with proper context support 
which is important

as aditya pointed out, asymptote has some hard wired assumptions and 
does not integrate well with context

Hans

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