[metapost] Running mpost as a unix daemon?

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/20/2014 12:23 AM, Martin Schröder wrote:
> 2014-02-20 0:00 GMT+01:00 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
>> I see 3 options for making this work as a daemon:
>
> Option: Use LuaTeX. It can talk to sockets and has a built-in MP.

Indeed, that's what I would do; of course one also needs some macro 
management on top .. I might even write it as it's not too hard.

Hans

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