On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:38:19 +0100
Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I was wondering if anybody (say, for example, Hans ;>) has ever
> thought about developing a (Con)TeX(t)+Meta(Post|Fun) counterpart of
> PSTricks? PSTricks is widely used, but has the disadvantage of not
> being usable for direct PDF creation; a purely "texmf"ish way to
> handle the stuff would be rather nice.

Hmm, PSTricks consists of two parts:
a) a TeX-part that provides a user-interface and writes the
   PS-specials in the dvi-output
b) a set of PS-macros that provides a varity of interesting
   features

a) could be implemented, but in contrast to PSTricks it
   generates MP/MetaFun code.
   This is, for example, the way how the flow-chart module works.
b) could be done partially, since PS as full featured programming
   language provides many more capabilities than TeX/MP/MFun
   together

 So, what do want or what is missing in your opinion, since
 some of the PSTricks features are already available in ConTeXt/MFun.

Jens 
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