At 03:38 PM 11/12/2001 +0100, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes wrote:
>On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > 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)
>
>Yes, indeed :)
>Well, supp-msp was perhaps not intended to be used outside conTeXt, but
>ppchtex was, and as ppchtex can work with pure pictex, or pictex+supp-msp,
>it seemed natural to be able to use ppchtex+supp-msp outside conTeXt.
>
>BTW, are you planing to produce pure-metapost ppchtex (without pictex) ?
maybe some day ... but then i would probably write the module from scratch
> > >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.
>
>Because it then complains about other missing things ... that enforces
>to call another module that complains of other missing things that ...
>and so on. It was my first idea, but, outside conTeXt, I found cleaner
>only to add the very few missing macros.
hm, but syst-ext is supposed to be rather independent
Hans
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