From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: How powerful is mp?
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:32:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011107183011.04289690@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011107123024.A3646@wimsey>
At 12:30 PM 11/7/2001 +0000, you wrote:
> Dear list,
>
>I am currently re-considering my policy regarding graphics, and
>would like to have your advice.
>
>Up to now, I am using the Functional MetaPost (FMP) front-end
>to MP, which is quite nice if you want to draw trees according
>to the generic algorithm proposed by Kennedy (see the paper at
>http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kennedy96drawing.html). Well, to be
>honest: it is mostly therefore that I use FMP. :-)
>
>Now my question: Do you think that one can actually write a
>program in MP/ConTeXt directly that implements Kennedy's
>algorithm? It should take a structural description of a tree as
>input (XML seems to be a good choice for the format here) and
>produce a drawing of the tree as output. The tree structure
>should be placeable inside a ConTeXt document.
>
>Using FMP, the necessary calculations are done in beforehand,
>and MP already gets the exact measures (distances between
>nodes, levels etc). This additional algorithmical level I have
>considered as one of the major advantages of FMP. On the other
>hand, it needs to be run separately.
you want the simple binary trees graphics from the paper (incredible: after
all these years people still post tex files with bitmaps)
i'm too stupid to read this kind of algorhitms so i would probably start
from scratch -)
not too hard to do in xml i think [there is already an xml version of the
context flowchart module]
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-07 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-07 12:30 Marco Kuhlmann
2001-11-07 15:56 ` Taco Hoekwater
2001-11-07 16:17 ` Marco Kuhlmann
2001-11-07 17:32 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2001-11-07 17:49 ` Marco Kuhlmann
2001-11-08 8:33 ` Taco Hoekwater
2001-11-08 11:16 ` Marco Kuhlmann
2001-11-09 9:06 ` Taco Hoekwater
2001-11-14 20:07 ` Marco Kuhlmann
2001-11-08 8:43 ` Hans Hagen
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