On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:33:46 -0500 "John Culleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Context in its present form cannot handle Pstricks because > Pstricks generate Postscript code that is a bit scary when > inserted in a pdf file. (I have heard of Postscript embedded > in PDF but I would not want to count on it.) However > Metapost code is handled by an on-the-fly call to the > mpost program. I wonder if the same principle could be > used for incorporating Pstricks figures and special > effects into Context? Well, maybe (really, maybe) it is possible to feed some of the pstricks ps output to ps2edit (assuming you glue the correct headers in front of it). But not all of it, since sometimes pstricks *really* does tricks that depend on contextual information that is not longer present in the pdf or dvi version of a document, only in the dvips-generated PostScript version. And even if you are happy with the partial solution this approach offers, you would still need to write a driver for the ps2edit output. The easier way out (though still a lot of work) is to re-implement the pstricks interface using metapost and ConTeXt commands. I am not volunteering for that one, either. It's just too much work. -- groeten, Taco
