From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60142 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Henning Hraban Ramm Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Example ConTeXt document: PS output Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:51 +0200 Message-ID: <8426970D-0ACC-45B2-9D40-26BAA804CD3D@fiee.net> References: <4496BCFA-E0D9-4032-B038-B3FC31BFD7EE@fiee.net> <20100711205355.GA4933@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278883565 9382 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 21:26:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:26:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 11 23:26:03 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OY42E-0003jI-8F for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:26:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7EF4C9BC9; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:26:00 +0200 (CEST) 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 Tno8A4roMJ5E; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F2CC9B80; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51AF9C9AC1 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:56 +0200 (CEST) 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 xHqITELLMkzJ for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (turan.fiee.net [87.230.77.106]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3371C9B80 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:53 +0200 (CEST) X-No-Auth: unauthenticated sender Original-Received: from turan.fiee.net (lvps87-230-77-106.dedicated.hosteurope.de [127.0.0.1]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F6D17BC0290 for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.128.9.9] (181-217.76-83.cust.bluewin.ch [83.76.217.181]) by turan.fiee.net (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:25:52 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <20100711205355.GA4933@khaled-laptop> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) 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:60142 Archived-At: Am 2010-07-11 um 22:53 schrieb Khaled Hosny: > SUSE had (have?) a graphical menu extension to GRUB boot loader > written > in PostScript. Don't ask me why I remembered this now, but I always > found it one of most weird uses of PostSscript I've ever seen. NextStep's whole screen graphics was DisplayPostScript - in NS's successor OSX it became PDF (Aqua is based on a PDF graphics model; didn't research what's left of it today). I read, PostScript was also used for industrial robotics, because it's geometrical calculations were unique. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________