[metapost] Better gradient and 'special'

[Dan Luecking]

At 07:25 PM 3/23/2009, you wrote:



>Hi all,
>
>In its version 3 of 1998, PostScript has provided
>NATIVE support for many sorts of varying coloring.
...
>It seems that these features are not explicitly
>supported by MP. Thus my question:-- is it feasible to
>access these features using some sort of MP 'special'
>command. Unfortunately, I read in the MP manual that
>"The command
>
>      special <string expression>
>
>adds a line of text at the beginning of the next output
>file."  Which suggests that the MP special command
>still lacks the necessary power.  Is a more powerful
>'special' planned?

Can't one use the withprescript and withpostscript commands
to add arbitrary postscript commands anywhere?


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Arkansas
"Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum" --Descartes