On Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:38:19 +0100
Giuseppe Bilotta
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