Mojca Miklavec wrote:
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
That's also right. Actually, "btex label etex" which calls TeX (in an extremely inefficient way, among other things) is the one that doesn't know how to handle them. It would be nice if someone from this mailing list had at least some idea if that is solvable or not.
don't bother too much about these issues ... in mkiv things will be different
It was about plain metapost. Will your tricks also possible when running "plain metapost" (mptopdf)?
at some point mptopdf will use mkiv code (in context mkiv i will provide multiple engines .. \startMPgraphic[plain] ... \startMPgraphic[metafun] ...
Twice "wow" :) (After knowing the timings from the old-good-pre-sometxt times.)
btw, the latest textest already uses some of the same principles, but is slower since it still uses the external mp 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------