From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: externalfigure error in current mkiv beta
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 23:37:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DD2EAB7.3070102@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105172321.45353.alan.braslau@cea.fr>
On 17-5-2011 11:21, Alan Braslau wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 17 May 2011 23:09:51 Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 17-5-2011 10:41, Alan Braslau wrote:
>>> "draw externalfigure"
>>
>> I'm still not sure about that one ... compatibility vs clean
>>
>
> I rather like the new syntax - indeed much cleaner.
>
> (However, for compatibility issues, it might be nice to
> somehow program a better error message, if possible,
> so that 'externalfigure "hacker.jpg";' more elegantly fails.)
pretty hard in metapost
> In fact, '\externalfigure' in ConTeXt and 'externalfigure'
> in metafun (without 'draw') can be a bit confusing, as in
> \starttext
> \externalfigure "hacker" scaled 5cm ;
> \stoptext
> Of course, no-one would ever admit to such foolishness.
maybe another name externalimage or so (as images in mp need to be drawn)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 12:06 Lutz Haseloff
2011-04-19 12:26 ` luigi scarso
2011-04-19 14:36 ` Hans Hagen
2011-04-19 14:41 ` luigi scarso
2011-04-20 4:53 ` Lutz Haseloff
2011-04-20 5:09 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-04-20 6:02 ` Lutz Haseloff
2011-05-17 20:41 ` Alan Braslau
2011-05-17 21:09 ` Hans Hagen
2011-05-17 21:21 ` Alan Braslau
2011-05-17 21:37 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-05-18 0:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
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