On Sun, 8 Jul 2018 11:21:55 +0200 Hans Hagen <j.ha...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> the "externalfigure" variant is an old one that had to deal with > dimensions in a way that avoids overflows > > in a future context (read luatex 1.09+) we go one-pass-mp so we can > have a different approach (i never wanted to add a ton of code for > images) so there externalfigure will scale proportionally too ConTeXt running on the luatex experimental branch under development indeed works with one-pass-MP calculations as opposed to the two-pass mechanism that is standard today. For documents with extensive and complicated MP graphics, this yields a huge gain. Hans is at present working out all side-effects (such as recursive MP/TeX/lua calls) and is cleaning up some old ways of doing things that date from mkii. This might seem somewhat minor but is really exciting for those who use a lot of graphics and MetaPost effects. 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
