2007/10/10, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/10/07, MASON Peter J wrote: > > > Hope to create a regular (1cm spacing) grid on page, of bullets. Ultimately > > over the whole page. > > Why not using MetaPost? > > \starttext > \startMPcode % or \startMPpage > for i=0 upto 10: > for j=0 upto 20: > fill fullcircle scaled 1mm shifted ((i,j) scaled 1cm); > endfor; > endfor; > \stopMPcode > \stoptext > > Mojca
Because TeX is faster in this situation and it takes more time to write the Metapost code in external file, process this file, convert it into a PDF file and include it into the document etc. I know what I say because this was one of the reasons why the sgf module place the field within TeX and not with Metapost, a matter of speed and you can reuse the objects. You should also replace the fullcircle with drawdot in your example, drawdot renders better on screen and looks better. Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
