From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/39634 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: UTF-8 characters and gnuplot module Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:02 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00803241521y40a3d8f4kdab1e8480136734f@mail.gmail.com> References: <6faad9f00803240853n1d3df88dt31808c998d3b674@mail.gmail.com> <200803241152.20110.merritt@u.washington.edu> <6faad9f00803241314m467aeec8hc590f2c0f8ef86b1@mail.gmail.com> <47E824E6.9020907@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206397373 3074 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2008 22:22:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:22:53 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Mar 24 23:23:22 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jdv4T-00028D-9h for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:23:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00601FBDB; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:22:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31057-03-3; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57A391FC1A; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D5F1FC20 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 31057-03-2 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rn-out-0910.google.com (rn-out-0910.google.com [64.233.170.188]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350671FC1A for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:21:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by rn-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e13so1550626rng.16 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.191.10 with SMTP id o10mr3510371ybf.84.1206397262859; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.122.20 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:21:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <47E824E6.9020907@wxs.nl> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:39634 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________