In article <[email protected]>, luigi scarso <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Nicola > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One more thing: to generate a pdf file from the given figure(s), should > > I call an external program, such as mptopdf? I see that mplib outputs > > Postscript and SVG and the pdf library does not seem to suit this > > purpose (but maybe I'm wrong). > > Sorry, maybe I don't understand you question, but > > luatex = pdftex + metapost > > So it should be possible to use luatex as mpost interpreter that > output pdf direclty. Correct, but my question is more about lua + mplib (I use 'luatex' as an interpreter instead of 'lua' just for convenience, as it already includes the relevant libraries). Let's say I'm exploring the possibility of generating MetaPost code programmatically and interactively using Lua scripts. > See for example > texlive/2009/texmf-dist/tex/luatex That is certainly worth a look. Regards, Nicola
