Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-07 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: You have seen this one, haven't you? Posted by Don Knuth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVuggGxeBVk So that's your next challenge. Yes, I've seen it, had to watch the whole thing, it is so fascinating. If I ever decide to

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it, It is. :-) This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that I'm that far yet, but I

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
PS. I got this link from a friend who'd struggled with an event registration system, but it SO applies to my MetaPost project: http://www.howtogeek.com/102420/geeks-versus-non-geeks-when-doing-repetitive-tasks-funny-chart/ (Scary, I seem to count as geeknow...)

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is not open source software, Hm, I'm not sure that it's correct. -- luigi

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is not open source software, Hm, I'm not sure that it's

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread luigi scarso
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Wolfgang Schuster schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Pontus Lurcock
On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is not open

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-5-2012 13:33, Pontus Lurcock wrote: On Sun 06 May 2012, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 06.05.2012 um 11:16 schrieb luigi scarso: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Mari Voipiomari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/5/6 Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl: (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) The copyright holders are free to use any license.

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 6-5-2012 14:53, Martin Schröder wrote: 2012/5/6 Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl: (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) The

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-06 Thread Mari Voipio
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote: http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/ Best change that in: ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is open source software and avaliable as stand alone distribution (www.contextgarden.net) and is

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-05-01 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Mari, Am 30.04.2012 23:40, schrieb Mari Voipio: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 20:34, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and then four mirrored ones next to them OK, I really was being stupid - I had already managed to do a

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-04-30 Thread Mari Voipio
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 20:34, Mari Voipio mari.voi...@iki.fi wrote: a) I need to be able to stack four of these on top of each other and then four mirrored ones next to them OK, I really was being stupid - I had already managed to do a shift inside a single 'block', somehow I just didn't see

[NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-04-23 Thread Mari Voipio
Hello all, any graphic experts around who can bump me past a stupid hinder on my way to understanding MPgraphics? I'm trying to create a system of describing certain type of braiding patterns (fingerloop braiding), based on what has been used in the field before me - but they did it all

Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and building blocks?

2012-04-23 Thread Hans Hagen
On 23-4-2012 19:34, Mari Voipio wrote: Hello all, any graphic experts around who can bump me past a stupid hinder on my way to understanding MPgraphics? I'm trying to create a system of describing certain type of braiding patterns (fingerloop braiding), based on what has been used in the