[metapost] Running mpost as a unix daemon?

[Hans Hagen]

On 2/20/2014 6:12 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> On 20 February 2014 08:35, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>> unless you have a limited well known application you still have to restart
>> the mp session from scratch as macros can rewrite themselves, variables can
>> be set, and one run can influence an upcoming one.
>
> We're just using it to calculate glyph outlines with very simple
> variables, not hand written metafont code, so metaprogramming and
> inter-run changes won't happen.
>
> So we can use LuaTeX's sockets to send in a simple mf description of a
> glyph, with a preamble setting some variables, and see returned a new
> glyph with different point co-ordinates, and no start up time cost?

yes

Hans


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