From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11523 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: reusing metapost graphics Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:40:55 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20030320103931.02532670@server-1> References: <3E795F15.1090702@zam.att.ne.jp> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048153858 13834 80.91.224.249 (20 Mar 2003 09:50:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 09:50:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Mar 20 10:50:56 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18vwhM-0003ar-00 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:50:56 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F8D310B2B; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:50:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3917F10B15 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:48:35 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h2K9mWf5012924 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:48:32 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h2K9mYEU016025 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:48:34 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3E795F15.1090702@zam.att.ne.jp> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11523 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------