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Till Tantau | 29 May 2006 22:45
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Re: [Latex-beamer-users] Metapost or pgf/tikz?

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>> Dear all,
>>
>> I'm about to embark on studying a graphics tool for LaTeX and
>> Beamer. I'd like your opinions on which one is better, metapost or
>> pgf/tikz?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- Leon
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> certainly, I'm not really in a position to answer this question  
> objectively, but I can try...
>
> Things metapost can do better than TikZ.
> - metapost has a very fancy linear equation solver
> - this leads to powerful indirect specification of coordinates
> - pens can have arbitrary shapes, allowing nice calligraphic  
> effects that are difficult to simulate
> - powerful mathematics, complicated trigonometric calculations are  
> easy to do
> - plotting a function is easy to do
> - the syntax can be changed much the same way tex's syntax can be  
> changed
> - automatic support vector computation for Bezier curves
> - rock stable
>
> Things metapost and TikZ are both good at.
> - Drawing and filling simple or complicated paths
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Agustin E. Bolzan | 30 May 2006 14:34
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Re[2]: Metapost or pgf/tikz?

Dear Till Tantau,

On Monday, May 29, 2006 about the subject "[Latex-beamer-users] Metapost or pgf/tikz?" you wrote:

>> Things metaport and TikZ are both bad at.
>> - Complicated 3D graphics
>> - No wysiwyg editor available

What about Metagraf for Metapost?

http://w3.mecanica.upm.es/metapost/metagraf.php

Best regards,

Agustin E. Bolzán

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Jochen Küpper | 30 May 2006 22:05
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The pgf manual cannot be compiled with pdflatex:
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| (../../macros/pgfmanual-en-macros.tex
| 
| ! Package pgfmanual-macros Error: You need to use extended latex (elatex) or (p
| dfelatex) to process this document.
| 
| See the pgfmanual-macros package documentation for explanation.
| Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
|  ...
| 
| l.371 ...r (pdfelatex) to process this document}{}
| 
| ?
`----
Therefore the following patch should be applied:
,----
| Index: doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/Makefile
| ===================================================================
| RCS file: /cvsroot/pgf/pgf/doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/Makefile,v
| retrieving revision 1.2
| diff -u -u -r1.2 Makefile
| --- doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/Makefile      16 Nov 2005 11:24:34 -0000      1.2
| +++ doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/Makefile      30 May 2006 20:04:59 -0000
|  <at>  <at>  -1,6 +1,6  <at>  <at> 
|  rerun = "(There were undefined references|Rerun to get (cross-references|the bars) right)"
|  doc   = pgfmanual
| -latex = pdflatex
| +latex = pdfelatex
|
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Jochen Küpper | 31 May 2006 16:53
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Re: pdf-documentation

Hi Till,

> indeed... Only, I use MacOS and for some strange reason that I have
> not been able to figure out, on the standard tetex of macos pdflatex
> == pdfelatex and pdfelatex does not exist. If I use the above patch,
> things no longer compile on my system.

Ok, sehe schon... Da ich ohnehin cvs benutze, ist es nicht so wild.
Habe halt einfach lokal modifizierte Makefiles.

> I know that this is a bug of my system. This is why I usually try to
> change things back to pdfelatex in the releases, but I sometimes
> forget...
>
> I'll try to fix my system at some point.

Ist das ein Unix-teTeX? Dann sollte doch ein einfacher symbolischer
link pdfelatex -> pdflatex ausreichen.

Auf jeden Fall besten Dank für ein wirklich cooles Paket!

Schönen Gruß,
Jochen
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