At 07:32 PM 11/10/2001 +0100, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes wrote:
>In addition to the small supp-mps.tex bugs reported in another mail,
>there are some other macros missing from supp-mps.tex that are needed
>to use supp-msp+ppchtex from plain TeX (without loading full ConTeXt).
(well, it waqs never intended to work (that is: untested) so if it does
it's nice)
>Ppchtex.tex uses \pushMPdrawing and \popMPdrawing, defined in supp-mps.tex,
>and making use themselves of \pushmacro and \popmacro, that are not yet
>defined.
>
>The problem can be solved copying from syst-ext.tex the definitions of
>\pushmacro and \popmacro, plus the \increment and \decrement familly of
>macros, plus \let\redoglobal\relax and \let\dodoglobal\relax.
why not load syst-ext then? I would prefer that over letting supp-mis grow
too much; also because supp-mps might use other macros from syst-ext.
>I am using a file like the attached one to use ppchtex with metapost,
>useful with both pdftex and tex+dvips. Perhaps that you may find useful
>to add some of the missing macros to supp-mps.tex.
some of those macros have been optimized for speed recently so i would have
to look into it in more detail
Hans
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