Command/startMPenvironment

\startMPenvironment ... \stopMPenvironment

Summary

The environment \startMPenvironment ... \stopMPenvironment is used for general MetaPost settings.

Settings

\startMPenvironment[...] ... \stopMPenvironment
[...]	reset global +

Description

\startMPenvironment is a deprecated evironment in which one could place settings that one only wanted to apply in the MetaPost environment, but not in the document itself. One should use \defineMPinstance and \setupMPinstance, instead.

Examples

Example 1

\startMPenvironment
\switchtobodyfont[times,10pt]
\stopMPenvironment

See also

• meta-ini.mkiv
• \defineMPinstance
• \setupMPinstance

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