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...at R wants the device driver to give back information on the size of strings/labels. To the bet of my knowledge, MetaPost _does_ make it possible to measure the bounding box of text (see section 7.3: Measuring text in the MetaPost manual). For example, one could get the size of the bounding box of btex $\int_a^b x^2$ etex -- would that be enough to make an implementation possible? Or are the size of individual characters and kerning information necessary? Another question: can graphics devices be implemented solely in R (ie without writing C code)? I realize that it will be much slower, but firs...

I would like to know if a MetaPost device is available or in the plans. A search MetaPost in the documents and list archives did not turn up anything. [I would prefer to use MetaPost when the graphics is to be included in a document that I want in both hard-copy and in pdf formats.] If not, how easy/hard is it to add a new device to R? I caouln't see anything about adding devices in the

I would like to know if a MetaPost device is available or in the plans. A search MetaPost in the documents and list archives did not turn up anything. [I would prefer to use MetaPost when the graphics is to be included in a document that I want in both hard-copy and in pdf formats.] If not, how easy/hard is it to add a new device to R? I caouln't see anything about adding devices in the