From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/54475 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mojca Miklavec Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Pstricks and Asymptote Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:16 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00911170854i4d12bafcscb77931b6d2994f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <6F6819BC-7FD8-4FE4-8726-BD05F102723F@uni-bonn.de> <200911161543.20151.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <3b4b12310911161457s37d837eic14397ebe823b5a2@mail.gmail.com> 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 1258476882 8687 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2009 16:54:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:54:42 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 17 17:54:35 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NARJy-0001IJ-9m for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:54:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45CA6C9BB5; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:52:04 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2HqI29Mf0P8L; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:52:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD65AC9B10; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:52:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8DAC9B10 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:58 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FIbl9hWjiBUt for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f220.google.com (mail-bw0-f220.google.com [209.85.218.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E154FC9AAA for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by bwz20 with SMTP id 20so190891bwz.34 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:54:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=myji2uG8FyhcG90wTsPxdOLwWuf7IFOc47xXPyfOpl4=; b=i3jiHjz7OAx7/y+WITPEEOsFNjg55BUvZnlUtLiWGEhUSWlrb8syTaFZdtk+zPS2JS /DZFYAZRAD5zDXBNiJOIfOq5LbwDYGCmw5qSRfgtNpxPwRPbMNI2GWcn6hAdwJUqbPIw l0M/S3zllQ1UCQK7+oXYnVQJ7ATKiNkavbH1k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=vljQWKKkwjLSapWqnd9mP+IWxNoymZOu/2lddaZx0YpFZzlZDAqaFb68MtJ9NrS/xf V8L+/BJ5Bh7PRkILzOGRlLCj8cELAGiEF9aQeZa7z7tJJ8rqr4I/YRnhd03iz4Iqh355 iT8etFqUmFTVyL6FYl5sYR8JpoTZDBDoql/9Q= Original-Received: by 10.216.89.12 with SMTP id b12mr1422075wef.93.1258476856544; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:54:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <3b4b12310911161457s37d837eic14397ebe823b5a2@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:54475 Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 23:57, Curiouslearn wrote: > Thanks everyone for replying. > > Mojca, in case you read this, can you please let me know what the > status on asymptote is. I read it***, but I already forgot what the state was. I had to find the thread where I suggested a few changes, but the main people involved were Michail and Aditya. (Those who knew what was going on behind the scenes.) (***I ofter skip threads where no "hot" keywords appear in subject. You can CC me if you don't get any answer from me for some reasonable time.) >From what I remember (Michail, please correct me if I'm wrong) and apart from what Aditya wrote: - you can always use standalone asymptote files to generate figures, for example: settings.tex="context"; texpreamble("\usetypescript[iwona]"); texpreamble("\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska]"); label("$A$",0,N,font("iwona")); label("$A$",0,S,font("antykwa")+red); - Aditya described the integrated graphics (\startASY ... \stopASY) pretty well - in a quick-and-dirty way it can be done easily, but more difficult to do it properly. If it would help you a lot to have a quick-and-dirty solution for that, let us know. Now that TeX Live includes asymptote it is much easier for everyone to test it. - Michail was working on 3D support (that is making 3D text out of tex labels), but I have no idea what the status of that is. > Alan, the tikz module does not work with MKIV. From what I have read > before, it seems it will not unless the creator of tikz makes some > changes to tikz package so that it works with Context. I am not sure > how likely that is. In past Till has *always* fixed any bug reported, but I have not heard from him since March (neither as reply to off-list requests nor any response to the mailing list). > Thomas or someone else can you please confirm that the pstricks module > works with MKIV. Also, where I can find the module? It is not there > with the other third party modules. It's part of ConTeXt core, but the problem is that one needs a separate TeX run (PSTricks only works with tex->dvips->ps2pdf and that is awfully slow). I cannot tell you if it works with mkiv - probably not, but I can only tell you that the number of users is limiting towards zero and with that number of users you are almost on your own. I would say that tikz is much better in almost any respect, but then ... I have no idea why Till has been so silent for such a long time. 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________