Functional Metapost maintained?
Olof Oberg
mill@pedgr571.sn.umu.se
Wed, 07 Nov 2001 19:15:49 +0100
Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I got to know Haskell through Functional Metapost. Those
> who use LaTeX and feel like programming some graphics in
> Haskell, might have a look at this:
>
> http://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/functional-metapost-latex.pdf
>
> Trying to use the package I had some problems with the
> current Hugs and GHC, too. It seems like the version I have
> is quite dated: it uses fromDouble, fromInt, fromRealFrac
> etc. which GHC barks at.
>
> I made some modifications to have it compile, so that I can
> use it know, but I still have a couple of problems that
> should be washed out. But before I go for it, I'd like to
> know if somebody have got a newer version, or somebody else
> maintains it, or have some relevant information about that
> package, or anything... On the Web I found nothing, really.
I am interested in using FuncMP, so if you get it to
work with a current GHC or Hugs..
Plain metapost is just too awkward to use when one
wants to make more complex graphics, like 3D. I think
Haskell might help there.
/mill
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