From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10823 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[4]: MetaTricks? Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:35:14 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <592730426.20030206233514@iol.it> References: <14421271667.20030205223819@iol.it> <20030206141641.20382ab9.morawski@gmx.net> <416656420.20030206152912@iol.it> <20030206174938.773342f5.morawski@gmx.net> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1044570894 13902 80.91.224.249 (6 Feb 2003 22:34:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 22:34:54 +0000 (UTC) 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 18gubc-0003bx-00 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:34:52 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B1C10BAE; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:36:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from smtp1.libero.it (smtp1.libero.it [193.70.192.51]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D4F10B88 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:35:32 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [151.29.140.173] (151.29.140.173) by smtp1.libero.it (6.7.015) id 3E0C7171010C6FC7 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 23:35:31 +0100 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62 Christmas Edition) Business X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <20030206174938.773342f5.morawski@gmx.net> 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:10823 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10823 Thursday, February 6, 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: JUM> as you know, PSTricks is a huge package, so where to start? JUM> - what features are needed JUM> - who can write the TeX interface JUM> - i could help with some MP code Ok, the precise set of features I need is the one used by the excellent Eukleides program (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/obrecht/); while I was trying to port it to MetaPost and begun converting the instructions I knew how to convert I realized that a full (or as complete as possible) PSTricks emulation would have been the best thing ---and that it could have already been implemented. Which is why I asked :) In particular, there are a few things that I currently see as "missing" in (plain) MetaPost (and which I couldn't find in MetaFun either); for example, there is no macro that allows to "add" drawoptions; you can only replace them altogether. PSTricks, OTOH (at least for what I could see) has a default color, pensize and line style which can be changed singularly (MetaPost seems to only do this for the pen --currentpen; it doesn't have a currentcolor or currentstyle). -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta