Vit Zyka wrote:
before I started to use context I had prepared some diagrams in xypic.
Me too, for some notes on a course on commutative algebra when I was student at university.
It was the only way I knew for creating vector graphics for both tex and pdftex with text and graphics interaction possibility.
I try xfig with poor results.
For that experience I strongly discourage for using it with context: 1) Xypic has the most obscure syntax I have ever seen.
After writing some commutative algebra exercises, xy code is not so obscure :)
2) Nobody knows if there are not some name-space problems (redefinitions).
Big problem not only with xypic.
(after grep-ing xp package and context base I found some possibles names collisions
in core-pos.tex,page-lyr.tex,xtag-ini.tex)
3) Metapost is naturaly incorporated to context, strongly supported, higher possibilities and (my opinion) much more intuitive.Yes, I love metafun.
But a mp graphic must be preprocessed by mpost for inclusion, and I can do it only
if I can execute sysytems commands; this open a security and performance issues.
So: "Can I typeset a framedbox with a rulestyle WITHOUT using MetaPost ?" I have posted an idea with XYPic; but \leaders can be used too.
So I think that such a contextgarden xypic page would be only confusing.
ok, I follow your suggestion.
P.S. If you are still interesting google for xypic manual.
Better: http://www.tug.org/applications/Xy-pic/
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