Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
so, if you have specific wishes ... now is the time to let them know
Some questions (and hidden wishes)
Does this mean that text between metapost graphic and context can be really transparent? Currently \sometxt does not work with all macros, (like an old feature request by Mojca to have two optional arguments for setting the font in the gnuplot module). Will mplib mean that the metapost code can place any tex box at the desired location?
Now that you mention it: I still need to adapt the gnuplot module to mkiv, but I'm a bit afraid of asking for help. (The most important thing would be to get rid of that stupid catcode trickery inside \startGNUPLOTscript ... \stopGNUPLOTscript that always tends to fail when one needs it, and to have one-to-one conversion, so that %,#, $, .... will have no special meaning.) Then, it would probably be a nice benchmark to discover bugs in the library :)
For example, demos from this page (I'm not saying that they're too useful since 100x100 is too low resolution anyway): http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.3/pm3d.html currently all fail because of the "out-of-memory" problem (10.000 times "fill unitsquare scaled ... shifted ... withcolor ..."), but this might be a ConTeXt problem as well (the text inside \startMPgraphic ... \stopMPgraphic probably needs to be stored somewhere in TeX, even if there's no need for that).
let's discuss this a few months from now when i have more code in place btw, how difficult would it be to add a lua api to gnuplot, in which case we could communicate via lua tables Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------