From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/75991 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"? Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 14:47:06 +0200 Message-ID: <4FA672CA.80202@wxs.nl> References: <4F9599BC.2000301@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1336308449 9146 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2012 12:47:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 12:47:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mari Voipio To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 06 14:47:27 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SR0s0-0007p2-Re for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 May 2012 14:47:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53116101EE; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id MQayS9PPOYHU; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE48101DF; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE54101DF for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id yw6wN8f9qljz for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE97D101CF for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id q46ClGGU000814 for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 14:47:17 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 1733-1713362 for multiple; Sun, 06 May 2012 14:47:07 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07H6ALg0f - 8879b9c4fdc9 - 20120506 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 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:75991 Archived-At: On 6-5-2012 10:53, Mari Voipio wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: >> beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it, > > It is. :-) > > This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together > helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that > I'm that far yet, but I understand a lot more than I did. > > http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ Best change that in: ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is open source software and avaliable as stand alone distribution (www.contextgarden.net) and is also part of regular tex distributions (like texlive). It can be used commercially (within the rules of gpl etc etc) which I'm sure of some folks do. Of course you could joke that 'commercial usage is permitted given that a donation is made to the context group so that those involved can meet every now and then to discuss its usage and present recent work like yours). (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) 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