[metapost] generic TeX interface?

[Hans Hagen]

Brian Elmegaard wrote:
> Wouldn't it be the perfect solution to have all metapost features
> natively in (la)tex?
> Is it impossible to extend (la)tex to have these?
> What are the needed features in the tex-pgf combination to do the same
> as tex-metapost?
>   
these kind of things are completely unrelated to specific macro packages (in your case latex); actually, one can write macros that quite well integrate mp into tex (which we've been doing for ages in context); what would help is to have MP as a library (speed issue) and this is what will happen in luatex (pdftex 2+) next year 

Hans 

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