TUGboat Volume 34 2013 No 1 Entry level MetaPost On the grid Mari Voipio 1 Running MetaPost The basic method for running MetaPost is to create a file with extension mp and run MetaPost directly on the command line mpost yourfile mp In the mp file the code for making graphics is enclosed within beginfig endfig the result is a PostScript file The file extension is the figure number With this example the output would be a file yourfile 1 beginfig 1
METAPOST A USER S MANUAL John D Hobby and the MetaPost development team documented version 1 200 May 10 2009 Contents 1 Introduction 2 Basic Drawing Statements 3 The MetaPost workflow 3 1 Processing source files 3 2 Previewing MetaPost graphics 3 3 Importing MetaPost graphics in TEX documents s sa sasas 3 4 Importing MetaPost graphics in troff documents 3 5 Handling SVG files coesa 4 Curves 4 1 B zier Cubic Curves 4 2 Spe
METAPOST terminally ill or just playing dead Taco Hoekwater Dordrecht The Netherlands taco elvenkind com Abstract In recent years there is evidence of a renewed interest in the use of METAPOST for various drawing tasks Simultaneously it seems that just about every METAPOST user runs into some kind of limitation that makes the use of METAPOST far from ideal for the proposed task The diagnosis we have to make is whether these symptoms indicate a fatal disease