From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60033 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost: union test of two paths Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:21:10 +0200 Message-ID: <4C304476.4050104@elvenkind.com> References: <20100702190137.35aeab6b@vorbis> <4C2EEED4.1010300@elvenkind.com> <4C2F0EB2.1020508@elvenkind.com> <4C2F3C7A.1020603@elvenkind.com> <20100704011127.277ee6ac@vorbis> <4C302E79.3060708@elvenkind.com> <20100704100955.52261a25@vorbis> 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 1278231731 7493 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2010 08:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 08:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Marco To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 04 10:22:09 2010 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 1OVKSm-0005pI-9N for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:22:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C61C9AC7; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:07 +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 Qln2rK0ZPxDW; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810C2C9AD9; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAFDC9AC7 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:03 +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 FpQzTE+Jxc+O for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.21]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 048B4C9AD9 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from boo.fritz.box (boo.demon.nl [83.163.247.99]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr1.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o648LNv3066548; Sun, 4 Jul 2010 10:21:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from taco@elvenkind.com) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100614 Mandriva/3.0.4-11mdv2010.1 (2010.1) Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: <20100704100955.52261a25@vorbis> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:60033 Archived-At: On 07/04/2010 10:09 AM, Marco wrote: > Thanks for the hints. > >> But the hardest thing with doing all this in metapost is that you >> cannot trust metaposts results in the mathematical sense: rounding >> errors creep in easily in the internal routines, which is one the >> problems I hope to solve with metapost 2. > When is MP2 expected to be released? Is there a timeline or alike? End of this summer, I hope. But I am constantly juggling between mp|luatex|context and commercial work, so deadlines are far from fixed. Best wishes, Tacfo ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________