MetaPost

< Math, MetaFun, Graphics

• John Hobby's page: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/hobby/MetaPost.html
• 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 MPtoPDF).

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

Besides MetaFun there are some more extensions to MetaPost:

• MetaType1, see CTAN

Different Packages, Extensions & Applications of Metapost

• MetaPlot - graph drawing
• MetaObj

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

Packages for 3D support

• FeatPost
• 3DLDF

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

Documentation & Tutorials

• A User's Manual for MetaPost
• Learning METAPOST by doing (this and this link are not working)
• MetaFun

Other Links

• http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/metapost/