[metapost] Does MetaPost catch on?

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Wed Sep 8 10:32:30 CEST 2010


On 8-9-2010 1:03, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 7 September 2010 Stephan Hennig wrote:
>
>   >  But what about those graphics enthusiasts that don't know or use
>   >  TeX?  To those MetaPost is virtually non-existent.
>
> Come on, those who are able to use Metapost are aware of TeX and
> Metapost already, those who don't *use* TeX won't use Metapost for the
> same reason they don't use TeX, and the rest are butchers, plumbers,
> and hairdressers.

indeed.

if we turn mp in a big (also maintaince burden) graphical drawing 
application then it also looses some of its charm (fast, small 
footprint, embeddable) and as such users

Hans

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