On Tuesday 17 November 2009 14:40:04 Curiouslearn wrote: > I tried Metapost last year for a few graphs and liked the fact that it > is tightly integrated with Context. I found John Hobby's document a > good place to learn it and then used Hans' Metafun to learn further. > The reason I am looking at Asymptote and pstricks is because they have > libraries or functionality which Metapost lacks. For example, the tree > drawing library in pstricks. If Metapost has such a library I don't > know since I cannot find any document that explains the new things > added to Metapost other than what is mentioned in Metafun(2001). As > you said documentation is lacking.
pgf/tikz has a nice tree building function. pgfplots is a fairly evolved and active data plotting package. Concerning metapost, graph.mp is pretty powerful, but is missing some functionality. piechartmp is also available (although I never use pie charts!) featpost and mp3d give some nice, basic, 3d capability. metagraph, metaobj, ... It would be interesting to see a good tree drawing macro package under metapost; I have yet to take the time to see what is out there. The ConTeXt community (and via the minimals distribution) can keep this active... So much to do! Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
