From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/58589 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Helge Kruse Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PPCHTEX with PSTricks option Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 20:12:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4BE457F6.7000608@gmx.net> References: <4BE39CDE.10405@gmx.net> <201005070912.57406.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <4BE3CDF8.1000102@wxs.nl> <201005071304.25326.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273255954 20538 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2010 18:12:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 18:12:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Hans Hagen To: Alan BRASLAU Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri May 07 20:12:30 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OAS2F-00042f-1v for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 20:12:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D9BC9CAC; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:26 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 3q8mRG7bb0kz; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393ECC9C8C; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B708CC9C8C for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id zTeDdPoTOKrn for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 5116AC9BB5 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 20:12:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 07 May 2010 18:12:17 -0000 Original-Received: from p3E9BD99A.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO [192.168.2.102]) [62.155.217.154] by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 07 May 2010 20:12:17 +0200 X-Authenticated: #17690305 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+UWPBMlByUeKEM5wzv17XQOqW1YijTBXbY4i6Gi0 EYQ2wd7Qsso/kH User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0 In-Reply-To: <201005071304.25326.alan.braslau@cea.fr> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:58589 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________