Re: asymptote support

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just to let you know - thanks to John Bowman (Michail Vidiassov is
> also working on it) these are some latest posts from asymptote
> developers on their forum - if anyone would like to play with
> asymptote, feel free to test.

This is great. However, even simple examples do not work. I will test in 
more detail later. Is there some settings to get a verbose output on what 
asymptote is doing (-v just says Processing filename, which is not too 
informative).

> PS: I really really have to avoid the temptation to get distracted in
> the next few days/weeks unless I find an excuse that I need to make
> 3D/movies for my reports (which is not so unlikely to happen after all
> :) I have converted asycolors.sty; if anyone wants to take a look at
> asymptote.sty feel free to take it over. I might come back to it, but
> not right now. My quick first impression is that it does something
> similar to t-gnuplot, t-r, t-vim, t-lilypond, etc., that is: it
> defines some high-level commands, writes a file, lets asymptote
> process it and then includes the resulting graphic back.

It will be better to encapsulate asymptote setup similar to metapost 
(e.g., \startASYenvironment, \startASYinitilizations, etc)

Aditya
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