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* John Hobby's page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html
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* Current development: http://sarovar.org/projects/metapost/
  
 
MetaPost is a graphical programming language, based on Donald Knuth's MetaFont. Normally MP graphics are converted to PostScript and used with dvips, but ConTeXt can use it directly with PDF (see  
 
MetaPost is a graphical programming language, based on Donald Knuth's MetaFont. Normally MP graphics are converted to PostScript and used with dvips, but ConTeXt can use it directly with PDF (see  
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== Documentation & Tutorials ==
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* mpman.pdf <!-- please write the official link here -->
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* [http://remote.science.uva.nl/~heck/Courses/mptut.pdf Learning METAPOST by doing] ([http://maps.aanhet.net/maps/pdf/32_14.pdf this] and [http://maps.aanhet.net/maps/pdf/32_15.pdf this link] are not working)
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* [[manual:metafun-s.pdf|MetaFun]]
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== Other Links ==
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* http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/metapost/
  
 
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Revision as of 20:52, 8 December 2005

< Math, MetaFun, Graphics

MetaPost is a graphical programming language, based on Donald Knuth's MetaFont. Normally MP graphics are converted to PostScript and used with dvips, but ConTeXt can use it directly with PDF (see MPtoPDF).

MetaPost is ConTeXt's "native" graphics mode, see MetaFun.

Besides MetaFun there are some more extensions to MetaPost:

Different Packages, Extensions & Applications of Metapost

  • finomaton - drawing finite state automata
  • statsmac - metapost macros for statistics graphs

TODO: needs major review (See: To-Do List)


Documentation & Tutorials

Other Links