From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Asymptote or Metapost and ConTeXt parameters.
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:49:37 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.OSX.2.02.1612202348540.63924@nqv-znpobbx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161220151454.279d427c@zoo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:19:25 -0800
> Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>
>> The ability to pass parameters to metapost has been around since the
>> beginning. See the metafun manual for details (search for MPvar).
>
> Hans has developed tools making it quite easy to pass data back and
> forth between MetaPost and lua. This is quite efficient, and it is
> being used more and more in the development of macro functionality.
Thanks. It has been a few years since I read the ConTeXt+MP related part
of the source. I'll look again to see how MP-Lua interface is developed.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 7:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-19 7:41 Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-19 9:10 ` Fabrice Couvreur
2016-12-19 9:43 ` Hans Hagen
2016-12-19 16:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-20 10:34 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-22 4:49 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-23 8:02 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-23 19:22 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-23 20:28 ` Hans Hagen
2016-12-24 2:55 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2016-12-24 3:05 ` Aditya Mahajan
2016-12-20 22:14 ` Alan Braslau
2016-12-21 7:49 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2017-03-19 18:01 ` Passing data back and forth between metapost and lua Aditya Mahajan
2017-03-19 18:29 ` Aditya Mahajan
2017-03-19 19:02 ` Hans Hagen
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