On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:29:12 +0100 Giuseppe Bilotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thursday, February 6, 2003 Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: > > JUM> Hmm, PSTricks consists of two parts: > JUM> a) a TeX-part that provides a user-interface and writes the > JUM> PS-specials in the dvi-output > JUM> b) a set of PS-macros that provides a varity of interesting > JUM> features > > [snip] > > JUM> So, what do want or what is missing in your opinion, since > JUM> some of the PSTricks features are already available in ConTeXt/MFun. > > I'm more interested in (a), even if, I assume, some part of (b) > would need to be implemented in MetaPost too ... as you know, PSTricks is a huge package, so where to start? - what features are needed - who can write the TeX interface - i could help with some MP code but one important fact is, that PSTricks is from the normal users point of view a simple 1:1 interface. That means as long as the user is not familiar with TeX-programming one PSTricks command results in specific PS-code in the output. In contrast MetaPost is an easy to learn, clean and simple graphic/programming language; therefore we should not move too many features in the TeX interface since we will loose much of MPs flexibility. IMO, the TeX-part should only be present where interaction between TeX and MP is needed or where some complex MP-code can be hidden with a single TeX-command. Jens _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
