Re: plain ppchtex+supp-mps missing macros

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:32 PM 11/10/2001 +0100, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes wrote:

>In addition to the small supp-mps.tex bugs reported in another mail,
>there are some other macros missing from supp-mps.tex that are needed
>to use supp-msp+ppchtex from plain TeX (without loading full ConTeXt).

(well, it waqs never intended to work (that is: untested) so if it does 
it's nice)

>Ppchtex.tex uses \pushMPdrawing and \popMPdrawing, defined in supp-mps.tex,
>and making use themselves of \pushmacro and \popmacro, that are not yet
>defined.
>
>The problem can be solved copying from syst-ext.tex the definitions of
>\pushmacro and \popmacro, plus the \increment and \decrement familly of
>macros, plus \let\redoglobal\relax and \let\dodoglobal\relax.

why not load syst-ext then? I would prefer that over letting supp-mis grow 
too much; also because supp-mps might use other macros from syst-ext.

>I am using a file like the attached one to use ppchtex with metapost,
>useful with both pdftex and tex+dvips. Perhaps that you may find useful
>to add some of the missing macros to supp-mps.tex.

some of those macros have been optimized for speed recently so i would have 
to look into it in more detail

Hans
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                   Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl
                       Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
  tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------