[metapost] fullcircle in metapost language

[Pierre Lorenzon]

From: Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com>
Subject: Re: [metapost] fullcircle in metapost language
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:41:28 +0200

> Pierre Lorenzon wrote:
> > 
> >   But was not threee years ago ! 
> 
> This made me smile, as it shows how old tetex really is
> already. From the Texlive ChangeLog comes this:
> 
>     Tue Mar 24 19:20:13 1998
> 
>     * mp.web: New upstream source from John Hobby: version 0.641.
> 
>     Thu Jan 29 16:08:10 1998
> 
>     * mp.web, dvitomp.web: Version 0.64, from John Hobby
> 
> That's almost ten years ago!
> 
> > I still have somewhere the ps
> >   files produced by this command and they were perfectly
> >   correct !
> 
> But are you sure they did run without errors? It is not abnormal
> (but often lamentable) for metapost & tex to generate errors
> even if it knows how do the 'right thing' in the output.
> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco


  Anyway these parenthesis are not illogical and I'll put them
  in the future ! 

  Pierre
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