(essentially thinking out loud here)
Working on adding support for dovetail and keyhole tools, which has been slow going, and also bogged down a bit by:
so experimenting a bit and playing around with the idea of using METAPOST to make SVG instead.
This is reasonably straight-forward:
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install TeX, ensuring that it gets added to the filepath
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make a .mp file like to:
outputtemplate := “%j.svg”;
outputformat := “svg”;
input mpcolornames;
beginfig(1);
draw fullcircle scaled 72bp withcolor Blue;
endfig;
bye -
call it using:
import subprocess
subprocess.run(“mpost test.mp”, shell=True)
which results in:
and best of all, imports as expected:
but of course, raises the question — is it worth introducing a second tool?