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mpost

MetaPost, a system for creating graphics


see also : dvitomp - mf - mptopdf - tex

Synopsis

mpost [options] [commands]

mpost --dvitomp dvifile[.dvi] [mpxfile[.mpx]]


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  mpost abstract_factory.mp




  mv abstract_factory.1 abstract_factory.mps




  mpost components.mp




  mv components.1 components.mps




  mv components.1 components.mps




  mpost acomponents.mp




  mv acomponents.1 acomponents.mps
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  mpost tools.mp




  mv tools.1 tools.mps




  mpost linetool.mp




  mv linetool.1 linetool.mps




  mpost state.mp




  mv state.1 state.mps




  mv state.1 state.mps




  mpost tcpconnection.mp




  mv tcpconnection.1 tcpconnection.mps




  pdflatex state.tex
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  mpost strategy.mp




  mv strategy.1 strategy.mps




  mpost connect_strategy.mp




  mv connect_strategy.1 connect_strategy.mps
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  mpost visitor.mp




  mv visitor.1 visitor.mps




  mpost shape_visitor.mp




  mv shape_visitor.1 shape_visitor.mps
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  mpost observer.mp




  mv observer.1 observer.mps




  mpost line_observer.mp




  mv line_observer.1 line_observer.mps
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  cd figs




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circnomeansym.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  rotatedpic.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  rotatedpic.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  wrappeduniform_var0p08.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  VonMisesSumUnif_0p3.mp
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  cd plots




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circstatfigcube.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circstatfigquad.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circstatfigquad.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circstatfig.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  circstatfigzero.mp
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  latex test.tex




  mpost fmftempl.mp




  latex test.tex




  dvipdfm test.dvi
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  cd plots




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  peplots.mp




  cd ..






  cd figs




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  cuberothex.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  cuberothex.mp




  mpost -interaction=nonstopmode
  hexlatfig.mp




  cd ..






  pdflatex paper.tex




  bibtex paper




  pdflatex paper.tex

description

MetaPost interprets the MetaPost language and produces PostScript (EPS) or Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) pictures. The MetaPost language is similar to Knuth’s Metafont with additional features for including tex(1) or troff(1) commands and accessing features of PostScript not found in Metafont.

MetaPost is normally used with some preloaded macros, and it will use its executable name as the name of the preload file to use. For example, when called as mpost the mpost.mp file is used, which is identical to plain.mp. When the --ini option is given, preloading does not happen.

The commands given on the command line to the MetaPost program are passed to it as the first input line. (But it is often easier to type extended arguments as the first input line, since UNIX shells tend to gobble up or misinterpret MetaPost’s favorite symbols, like semicolons, unless you quote them.) The normal usage is to say mpost figs to process the file figs.mp. The basename of figs becomes the ’’jobname’’, and is used in forming output file names. If no file is named, the jobname becomes mpout. The default extension, .mp, can be overridden by specifying an extension explicitly.

When the --dvitomp option is given, MetaPost acts as DVI-to-MPX converter only. See dvitomp (1) for details.

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of MetaPost can be found in the User Manual that should have been installed along with the program and is also available from http://tug.org/metapost. See the FILES section below.

The MetaPost language is similar to Metafont, but the manual assumes no knowledge of Metafont. MetaPost does not have bitmap output commands or Metafont’s online display mechanism.

files

plain.mp

The standard preload file.

mfplain.mp

The Metafont-compatible preload file.

$TEXMFMAIN/metapost/base/*.mp

The standard MetaPost macros included in the original distribution.

$TEXMFMAIN/metapost/support/*

Various tables for handling included tex and troff.

$TEXMFMAIN/metapost/support/trfonts.map

Table of corresponding font names for troff and PostScript.

psfonts.map

Table of corresponding font names for tex and PostScript.

$TEXMFMAIN/doc/metapost/*

The MetaPost manual and tutorial source, also including sample figures

suggested reading

Donald E. Knuth, The Metafontbook (Volume C of Computers and Typesetting), Addison-Wesley, 1986, ISBN 0-201-13445-4.
TUGboat (the journal of the TeX Users Group).


bugs

Email bug reports to metapost[:at:]tug[:dot:]org.


see also

dvitomp , epstopdf, mf , mptopdf , tex ,

MetaPost source code ⟨ URL: http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost/ ⟩ .
MetaPost home page ⟨ URL: http://tug.org/metapost/ ⟩ .


authors

MetaPost was designed by John D. Hobby, incorporating algorithms from Metafont by Donald E. Knuth. It was originally implemented on Unix, incorporating system-dependent routines from web2c, while not relying on it except for the actual Web-to-C translator.

Ulrik Vieth adapted MetaPost to take advantage of the advanced path searching features in more recent versions of web2c and worked towards fully integrating MetaPost into the canonical Unix TeX distribution.

The current, CWEB based version of MetaPost is maintained by Taco Hoekwater.

The manual and tutorial are maintained by Stephan Hennig and Troy Henderson.

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