From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6103 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: plain ppchtex+supp-mps missing macros Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:43:50 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011112174158.040005b8@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20011112121302.04122e58@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396651 7441 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:10:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:10:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@let.uu.nl Original-To: Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6103 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6103 At 03:38 PM 11/12/2001 +0100, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes wrote: >On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Hans Hagen wrote: > > > 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) > >Yes, indeed :) >Well, supp-msp was perhaps not intended to be used outside conTeXt, but >ppchtex was, and as ppchtex can work with pure pictex, or pictex+supp-msp, >it seemed natural to be able to use ppchtex+supp-msp outside conTeXt. > >BTW, are you planing to produce pure-metapost ppchtex (without pictex) ? maybe some day ... but then i would probably write the module from scratch > > >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. > >Because it then complains about other missing things ... that enforces >to call another module that complains of other missing things that ... >and so on. It was my first idea, but, outside conTeXt, I found cleaner >only to add the very few missing macros. hm, but syst-ext is supposed to be rather independent 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------