[metapost] interaction in mpost

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Fri Mar 27 17:22:01 CET 2009



Dan Luecking wrote:
> 
>> (which is one of the reasons why it will be marked
>> deprecated in the next release).
> 
> Why would that make it deprecated?
> What are the other reasons?

Because its syntax is ugly, and it is writeonly.

> What will replace it?

string-valued internals (outputtemplate, to be exact).

Best wishes,
Taco


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