Am 07.05.2010 13:04, schrieb Alan BRASLAU:
On Friday 07 May 2010 10:23:20 Hans Hagen wrote:
On 7-5-2010 9:12, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
indeed the mkiv reimplementation will not be backported to latex as it
involved a combination of tex, lua and mp now and is integrated into the
context kernel (we have math in the kernel so why not chemistry)
So PPCHTEX is frozen for LaTeX?
Indeed, the problem is that I tried to run the pstricks option
under pdflatex, which, of course, does not work!
The pictex output is not convincing, so I hoped the PSTricks output
would gave better result. In general it works, but the diagonal bonds
are too long. I Hoped that this could be fixed.
Skimming the ppchtex.noc I found that metapost is one possible output
"driver". I also found a documentation for metapost. But I don't see how
I can make PPCHTEX work with metapost in LaTeX. I even don't know if
metapost can be used in LaTeX as in ConTeXt.
As I (almost) never use LaTeX anymore (and certainly never dvips)
I had forgotten about this.
I guess that I have become far too accustomed to ConTeXt and,
in particular, mkiv.
As to the original post, it yields acceptable results. The new ppchtex
in mkiv core is an improvement and, as Hans confirms, will not be backported
to laTeX. This could be one of many good reasons to switch from LaTeX to
ConTeXt!
Well I am curious and I would evaluate ConTeXt. I think that
http://www.pragma-ade.com/ will be a good starting point to do that.
Unfortunately I did not found "How to install ConTeXt". Can this be done
by adding some packages in MiKTeX 2.8? Probably a silly question...
Regards,
Helge
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