Re: [NTG-context] Metapost/Metafun Q: using variables and "building blocks"?

On 6-5-2012 10:53, Mari Voipio wrote:

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:

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beware, metapost is addictive once you get better in it,

It is. :-)

This one is to both you and Peter, because your snippets together helped me adjust from WYSIWYG vector graphics to MetaPost - not that I'm that far yet, but I understand a lot more than I did.

http://www.lucet.fi/textiles/

Best change that in: ConTeXt, developed by the Dutch company Pragma Advanced Document Engineering, is open source software and avaliable as stand alone distribution (www.contextgarden.net) and is also part of regular tex distributions (like texlive). It can be used commercially (within the rules of gpl etc etc) which I'm sure of some folks do. Of course you could joke that 'commercial usage is permitted given that a donation is made to the context group so that those involved can meet every now and then to discuss its usage and present recent work like yours). (btw, I always wonder if the gpl restrictions also apply to the makers too ... i.e. if I extend context for a project should I then also make those extensions public ... quite a hassle if that would be true.) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------