From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: reusing metapost graphics
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:40:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030320103931.02532670@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E795F15.1090702@zam.att.ne.jp>
At 03:26 PM 3/20/2003 +0900, you wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I'm designing a year's worth of English lessons for some Japanese kids,
>and I'm using Metapost and ConTeXt to generate flashcards for vocabulary
>training. I have a few questions:
>(1) I want to keep my Metapost figures defined in a ConTeXt environment
>file so that I can recall them as I need in future lessons. Is there
>anything wrong with this approach?
sounds ok to me
>(2) How do I make a Metapost figure defined in a ConTeXt file reusable? Do
>I need to wrap the definition of the figure in a macro so that the figure
>is recreated everytime I need it?
see patricks answer; in addition to that: external figures are reused by
default
\startreusableMPgraphic{abc}
\stopreusableMPgraphic
\placefigure{]{\reuseMPgraphic{abc}}
will also be reused
>(3) With \useMPgraphic, is there any mechanism to scale the image as with
>\useexternalfigure?
see patricks answer
Hans
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2003-03-20 6:26 Matthew Huggett
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