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Hi all, By default, MetaPost passes all text through TeX. This has the advantage of allowing essentially any TeX symbols in titles and labels. It give us, who use the multibyte character in ordinary communication, much convenience. Gnuplot has fulfilled this function, and it give me a deep impression for I could use Chinese ch...

Hi, I know the R can make eps output. But metapost sees to be an even better choice for me. I've been using gnuplot for a while, it seems it has excellent support with its metapost latex terminal. So I can insert any latex equation in the figure. Meanwhile, I can make the font in the figure will be consistent with font used in the main text. I...

Hi All, I've started work on a MetaPost device driver (please don't hold your breath). I've copied the XFig driver and renamed everything and this works, I can open the new metapost() and it works exactly like the xfig driver. Now all I have to do is the actual work! Just one question. There is a magic number in ExtEntries as f...

Hi All, I've started work on a MetaPost device driver (please don't hold your breath). I've copied the XFig driver and renamed everything and this works, I can open the new metapost() and it works exactly like the xfig driver. Now all I have to do is the actual work! Just one question. There is a magic number in ExtEntries as f...

Hi, I read the 2000 thread on a MetaPost device in R. If I understand correctly, the main problem with the concept is that 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 t...

...r-help-owner at stat.math.ethz.ch > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of R-help digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: "Statistiques avec R" (pallier) > 2. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Prof Brian Ripley) > 3. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Gabor Grothendieck) > 4. Re: graphic device MetaPost (Itay Furman) > 5. applying data generating function (Fred J.) > 6. missing values (Grace Conlon) > 7. drawing filled countries according to data using >...

Hi all, To develop the metapost driver, I did an svn checkout (R-2-4-branch revision 40647) as instructed in http://developer.r-project.org/SVNtips.html i.e., I did a, svn co $REPOS/branches/R-2-4-branch r-release-branch/R Not being a core developer, can I just commit the changes? Am I on the right branch? Most of th...

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 t...

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 t...

Hi, 1. I started work on a metapost graphics driver a week or so ago and it is gradually taking shape. I'm building up my own test cases into a script as I go, but figured you may have a "canonical testing script" of cases a driver must handle? 2. The clipping function looks like being a tricky problem. It seems to me...

...to Santa Claus [there are people > who write to congressman; they must have more faith than me]. :-) :-) > I wish a language where I can write > a = b + 10 > and then when I write > a = 20 > the language automatically assigns b = 10. METAFONT does this (and consequently, Metapost as well). I still remember my surprise when I found out that Donald Knuth resorts to such sophisticated machinery for the sole purpose of designing font characters. Knuth surely did many wonderful things :-). -- Fran?ois Pinard http://pinard.progiciels-bpi.ca _____________________________...

Dear R users, I want to share my joy with you. Please see the following excellent introduction to R "Statistiques avec R " by Vincent Zoonekynd http://zoonek2.free.fr/UNIX/48_R/all.html In paticular, you can see a lot of fascinating graphics examples of R from which you can get many hints. Soryy if this is already well-known, but the CRAN search did not show nothing with the keyword

Can someone hit me with the appropriate clue-by-4? is there an available package for CentOS5 which provides the metafont command, or a replacement? What is the name and which repo? please. I have a font bundle I need to use (which is not provided in an RPM that I can find), but metafont does not seem to be available. tetex provides the /usr/share/texmf/metafont directory structure, but not a