From: Helge Kruse <Helge.Kruse-nospam@gmx.net>
To: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: PPCHTEX with PSTricks option
Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 20:12:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BE457F6.7000608@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005071304.25326.alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Am 07.05.2010 13:04, schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
> On Friday 07 May 2010 10:23:20 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 7-5-2010 9:12, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
>> indeed the mkiv reimplementation will not be backported to latex as it
>> involved a combination of tex, lua and mp now and is integrated into the
>> context kernel (we have math in the kernel so why not chemistry)
So PPCHTEX is frozen for LaTeX?
> Indeed, the problem is that I tried to run the pstricks option
> under pdflatex, which, of course, does not work!
The pictex output is not convincing, so I hoped the PSTricks output
would gave better result. In general it works, but the diagonal bonds
are too long. I Hoped that this could be fixed.
Skimming the ppchtex.noc I found that metapost is one possible output
"driver". I also found a documentation for metapost. But I don't see how
I can make PPCHTEX work with metapost in LaTeX. I even don't know if
metapost can be used in LaTeX as in ConTeXt.
> As I (almost) never use LaTeX anymore (and certainly never dvips)
> I had forgotten about this.
>
> I guess that I have become far too accustomed to ConTeXt and,
> in particular, mkiv.
>
> As to the original post, it yields acceptable results. The new ppchtex
> in mkiv core is an improvement and, as Hans confirms, will not be backported
> to laTeX. This could be one of many good reasons to switch from LaTeX to
> ConTeXt!
Well I am curious and I would evaluate ConTeXt. I think that
http://www.pragma-ade.com/ will be a good starting point to do that.
Unfortunately I did not found "How to install ConTeXt". Can this be done
by adding some packages in MiKTeX 2.8? Probably a silly question...
Regards,
Helge
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-07 4:53 Helge Kruse
[not found] ` <201005070912.57406.alan.braslau@cea.fr>
2010-05-07 8:23 ` Hans Hagen
2010-05-07 11:04 ` Alan BRASLAU
2010-05-07 18:12 ` Helge Kruse [this message]
2010-05-07 18:38 ` Marius
2010-05-08 17:32 ` Helge Kruse
2010-05-08 19:50 ` Marius
2010-05-07 18:52 ` Hans Hagen
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