Re: UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>  > That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an
>  > extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't
>  > know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing
>  > list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.
>
>  don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be
>  different

It was about plain metapost. Will your tricks also possible when
running "plain metapost" (mptopdf)?

>  i'm currently playing with mplib; the default converter works ok; the
>  specials handler is reimplemented and mostly finished; and now i'm
>  playing with the textual part ... i even got this working ...
>
>  \startMPgraphic
>      fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor green ;
>      n := 50 ;
>      for i=1 upto n :
>          draw btex goodbye world etex
>                 scaled 2
>                 rotatedaround(origin,i*360/n) ;
>      endfor ;
>  \stopMPgraphic
>
>  so, btex/etex works ok in a loop; everything happpens in luatex/mplib
>
>  it's even acceptable fast ...
>
>  100 times the previous graphic (i.e. 5000 btex/etex's) takes .7 seconds
>  on my machine

Twice "wow" :)
(After knowing the timings from the old-good-pre-sometxt times.)

Thanks a lot,
    Mojca
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