Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Hans Hagen wrote: >> >> > so, if you have specific wishes ... now is the time to let them know >> >> Some questions (and hidden wishes) >> >> Does this mean that text between metapost graphic and context can be >> really transparent? Currently \sometxt does not work with all macros, >> (like an old feature request by Mojca to have two optional arguments for >> setting the font in the gnuplot module). Will mplib mean that the metapost >> code can place any tex box at the desired location? > > Now that you mention it: I still need to adapt the gnuplot module to > mkiv, but I'm a bit afraid of asking for help. (The most important > thing would be to get rid of that stupid catcode trickery inside > \startGNUPLOTscript ... \stopGNUPLOTscript that always tends to fail > when one needs it, and to have one-to-one conversion, so that %,#, $, > .... will have no special meaning.) Then, it would probably be a nice > benchmark to discover bugs in the library :) > > For example, demos from this page (I'm not saying that they're too > useful since 100x100 is too low resolution anyway): > http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.3/pm3d.html > currently all fail because of the "out-of-memory" problem (10.000 > times "fill unitsquare scaled ... shifted ... withcolor ..."), but > this might be a ConTeXt problem as well (the text inside > \startMPgraphic ... \stopMPgraphic probably needs to be stored > somewhere in TeX, even if there's no need for that).
let's discuss this a few months from now when i have more code in place btw, how difficult would it be to add a lua api to gnuplot, in which case we could communicate via lua tables Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________