Re: Pstricks and Asymptote

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

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 20:35, Curiouslearn wrote:
> Thanks to all who made some suggestions about where I can find
> Metapost libraries. Will look into those.
>
> It seems Asymptote + Tikz  is a good way to go and also try out Metapost again.
>
> Mojca, you  said that number of pstricks users are decreasing.

I didn't say that it's decreasing. I just said that it's really low,
but I meant ConTeXt users with that. There are still plenty LaTeX
users around.

The main problem is that PS Tricks cannot be very well integrated
unless one uses tex->dvips, but ConTeXt doesn't use that for ages and
there is basically no support for dvi in ConTeXt either.

> Is this
> amongst Context users, or in general amongst all users who use
> pstricks. If the overall number of users is decreasing then perhaps I
> don't want to spend time learning it as it won't have new features in
> the future. I don't like its syntax, though it can do neat things.

Are there any "neat features" that you won't to do, but cannot do with
TikZ? (I'm sure there are some, but I'm also sure that 99% of drawings
can be done in a very similar way in TikZ as well unless there is a
well-developed PSTricks library around that's missing in TikZ.)

Asymptote is very similar to MetaPost. The main reason why I would
want to use it is to draw 3D, else I would go for MetaPost since it's
much faster and better integrated when used within ConTeXt.

Mojca
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