Re: How powerful is mp?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 05:49 PM 11/7/2001 +0000, Marco Kuhlmann wrote:
>     Hi Hans!
>
>Hans Hagen wrote (2001-11-07 (18:32)):
>
> > you want the simple binary trees graphics from the paper
> > (incredible: after all these years people still post tex files
> > with bitmaps)
>
>Not binary, n-ary trees. And what do you mean by the second
>sentence? What TeX files, what bitmaps?

the article on the site you pointed too uses bitmap fonts

>Do you think that this would be a good starting point for me
>then?

it's a bit old code but it demos a bit how to do this

the idea is to let mp do the drawings, and pass info to tex so that tex can 
do the text; that way you can have all documents related things in the text 
(like hyperlinks and so)

Hans
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