2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec
On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote:
Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately over the whole page.
Why not using MetaPost?
\starttext \startMPcode % or \startMPpage for i=0 upto 10: for j=0 upto 20: fill fullcircle scaled 1mm shifted ((i,j) scaled 1cm); endfor; endfor; \stopMPcode \stoptext
Mojca
Because TeX is faster in this situation and it takes more time to write the Metapost code in external file, process this file, convert it into a PDF file and include it into the document etc. I know what I say because this was one of the reasons why the sgf module place the field within TeX and not with Metapost, a matter of speed and you can reuse the objects. You should also replace the fullcircle with drawdot in your example, drawdot renders better on screen and looks better. Wolfgang