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TIL: Footnotes within MetaPost textext (at least with the nodes modules) get wrongly numbered due to multiple passes and uncaught boundary conditions.
Using footnotes in graphics wasn’t expected …
A fix will need time and opportunity.

#TeXConTeXt #MetaPost

There's a ConTeXt LMTX update, focussing on 3D graphics (MetaPost, STL etc.).

Full announcement: https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/n[email protected]/thread/JLSM5LODAVMFCSPFMC7T32EPUYHC3MGV/

#TeXConTeXt #LMTX #MetaPost #stl #3d

Dzisiaj wyjątkowo (urlopowo?) meta-wpis na blogu. I nie chodzi tu o właściciela pewnego 'slop-portalu' 🙂‍↔️ Jestem ciekaw czy wasz warsztat wygląda podobnie 🤔

https://blog.narecki.name/jak-powstal-ten-wpis

#metapost #publikacja

🤫 fresh from the LuaMetaFun kitchen:

Still undocumented function lmt_stipple allows, well, stippled fills. And with some Voronoi magic, you can create eerie spider web graphics. 🕸️ 🎃 😉

#TexConTeXt #MetaPost

Wolfgang let the cat in.

Embroidery cat font, implemented in MetaFun with added color support.

#TeXConTeXt #MetaPost

@frischefarbe zeigt im nächsten Mini-Vortrag eine andere Spielerei. Ihr findet sie unter https://hobby.boxesandglue.dev/ und macht Werbung für #Metapost, was tatsächlich an vielen Stellen etwas mehr Aufmerksamkeit verdient hätte.

Im #TeXConTeXt Umfeld wird es deutlich mehr genutzt, aber bei #TeXLaTeX haben gerade #TikZ & Co mehr Nutzung.

#DANTE2026

This was an excellent week for boxes and glue.

* the textshape Text shaper is now usable and passes almost all harfbuzz tests (still working on the last ones)
* mpgo - a Go MetaPost code is now pretty much feature complete (an bug free, of course)
* hobby, a Lua frontend for mpgo works fine
* glu, a boxes and glue Lua frontend is getting more and more functionality
* boxes and glue can now render SVGs in PDF and is font aware. it uses the textshape engine to render fonts in SVG.
* Merged some pull requests for textshape and boxesandglue.

https://boxesandglue.dev

#boxesandglue #PDF #SVG #MetaPost

New software in the boxes and glue universe: mpgo and hobby. mpgo is a MetaPost library (re-)written in Go and hobby is a Lua frontend which uses the library and adds a Lua layer for programming.

See https://boxesandglue.dev/hobby/, https://github.com/boxesandglue/mpgo and https://github.com/boxesandglue/hobby

#MetaPost #go #lua

Federated!

You can now follow this site in the Fediverse.

https://www.ideepix.nl/projects/news/federated/

Various Things in MetaPost (2019)
https://habr.com/en/articles/454376/
#ycombinator #metapost #tex #illustrations

Various Things in MetaPost (2019)

https://habr.com/en/articles/454376/

#HackerNews #MetaPost #MetaPost2019 #Habr #Articles #Programming

Partly because of our #MetaPost workshop of next week at #AutomaticType #anrt @ANRT https://automatic-type-design.anrt-nancy.fr with @Ludi @eugbidaut @AntoineGelgon I'm reading an old brochure on (the always incredibly rich) archive.org about the "#Compugraphic Modular Composition System"
https://ia801000.us.archive.org/29/items/bitsavers_compugraphphicModularCompositionSystemBrochure_14979239/Compugraphic_Modular_Composition_System_Brochure_text.pdf
#photocomposition #typography
(lot of text in the alt of pictures)
According to the Compugraphic page on wikipedia "Following the success of the EditWriter, Compugraphic introduced [somewhere in the 70's] the Modular Composition System, known as the "MCS". The entire system was modular, including the software, which was delivered on 5" floppy disks. As the product matured, a "#WYSIWYG" (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) display was added (the PreView) so that a user could see a "soft" view of a job before it was typeset. This was followed up by the PowerView whereby the user worked directly on a "WYSIWYG" display. The MCS was a huge success, and also marked a change in technology from 8bit to 16bit (Intel 8086) cpu hardware."

Metapost or your Brain

Today I burned my last half-neuron to solve a #design issue with #Metapost.
Now that I achieved my goal I was left without brain, how can I go forward now?

My brain is wired to solve graphical/design issues not to solve coding ones, even when both overlap, my concerns belong to the visual space.

Now, that I don't have a sane neuron left anymore, I don't know what do to... 😖

I am definitively screwed... 😭

#xml #fun #ironic #tex