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.

Documentation & Tutorials

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

Different Packages, Extensions & Applications of Metapost

• MetaPlot - graph drawing
• MetaObj

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

3D support

• FeatPost
• 3DLDF
• m3D

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

MetaPost relatives

Font Creation

• MetaType1, see CTAN

3D drawing

• Asymptote - inspired by MetaPost & fully generalizes MetaPost path construction algorithms to three-dimensions

Other Links

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