Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 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)?
at some point mptopdf will use mkiv code
(in context mkiv i will provide multiple engines ..
\startMPgraphic[plain] ...
\startMPgraphic[metafun] ...
> Twice "wow" :)
> (After knowing the timings from the old-good-pre-sometxt times.)
btw, the latest textest already uses some of the same principles, but is
slower since it still uses the external mp
Hans
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