Command/startMPdrawing

\startMPdrawing ... \stopMPdrawing

Summary

The environment \startMPdrawing ... \stopMPdrawing is used for Metapost inline graphics.

Settings

\startMPdrawing[...] ... \stopMPdrawing
[...]	-

Description

Similar to the command \MPdrawing.

Examples

Example 1

\startMPdrawing
fill fullcircle scaled 2cm withcolor darkyellow;
\stopMPdrawing

text before
\MPdrawingdonetrue  % you don't the drawing without
\getMPdrawing
text after

with lua

\startluacode
  context.startMPdrawing()
  context("fill fullcircle scaled 2cm withcolor darkyellow;")
  context.stopMPdrawing()
  context("text before")
  context.MPdrawingdonetrue()
  context.getMPdrawing()
  context("text after")
\stopluacode

See also

• meta-ini.mkiv

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