On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> > That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an
> > extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't
> > know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing
> > list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.
>
> don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be
> different
It was about plain metapost. Will your tricks also possible when
running "plain metapost" (mptopdf)?
> i'm currently playing with mplib; the default converter works ok; the
> specials handler is reimplemented and mostly finished; and now i'm
> playing with the textual part ... i even got this working ...
>
> \startMPgraphic
> fill fullcircle scaled 10cm withcolor green ;
> n := 50 ;
> for i=1 upto n :
> draw btex goodbye world etex
> scaled 2
> rotatedaround(origin,i*360/n) ;
> endfor ;
> \stopMPgraphic
>
> so, btex/etex works ok in a loop; everything happpens in luatex/mplib
>
> it's even acceptable fast ...
>
> 100 times the previous graphic (i.e. 5000 btex/etex's) takes .7 seconds
> on my machine
Twice "wow" :)
(After knowing the timings from the old-good-pre-sometxt times.)
Thanks a lot,
Mojca
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