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20 Dec
2016
20 Dec
'16
11:14 p.m.
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016 08:19:25 -0800
Aditya Mahajan
The ability to pass parameters to metapost has been around since the beginning. See the metafun manual for details (search for MPvar).
Hans has developed tools making it quite easy to pass data back and forth between MetaPost and lua. This is quite efficient, and it is being used more and more in the development of macro functionality. Alan