[NTG-context] Metapost and TeX

[Matthias Weber]

This is not exactly an answer to your question, but it might
solve your problem.

You can use overlays with any figure, see cont-eni.pdf page 150ff.

The mechanism is not so much the tex-engine TeX but one of the many 
little
add-ons that come with ConText and exploit features of PDF.

In particular, you can use your PDFs directly in ConText.
I found this easier than to teach my picture producing applications to 
use the
right fonts in the right way at the right place.

Matthias


On Aug 23, 2004, at 9:48 PM, skhilji at tampabay.rr.com wrote:

> I don't have any experience in metapost.  I would appreciate if 
> someone would please answer this question without me having to do thru 
> tutorials and metapost source code.
>
> I was wondering how does metapost talk to TeX?  Quicky glancing 
> through the metafun book, I found out that you can super-impose text 
> typeset by TeX on top of a diagram.  I imagine you could do the same 
> with mathematical equations too.
>
> So how does metapost interact with TeX?  Let me guess:
>
> 1)  Metapost could first write down to a file the text that it wan't 
> TeX to typeset.  It could then run TeX on the file.  TeX produces a 
> DVI file and metapost reads it back.  It can then superimpose it on 
> top of a picture.
>
> 2)  Metapost could also be including within itself a simplified 
> version of TeX.  But that would be reinventing the wheel.
>
> So how does it happen in reality?
>
> The reason that I am asking is that I am interested in producing some 
> diagrams using the libHARU PDF library (a C++ library to produce PDF 
> files).  Beautiful Text support, however, is missing from the library. 
>  I was wondering if I could hack it up so that I could somehow use TeX 
> for the text part and C++ calls for the graphics part.
>
>
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