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1. mpx4926 12 However if I first used TeX typesetting while inputing trymac mp no errors were re ported I could then switch to using LaTeX and again no errors were reported Note that there was never a problem if the macros in trymac mp were integrated into try mp When the macros were integrated in try mp the results were e The LaTeX size and non PS font changing commands only affected the btexed text Typical of these commands are documentclass 12pt renewcommand familydefault cmss and tiny after the begin document e Using the times package to use the PostScript Times font resulted in the btexed text being set in Times and the quoted text in Courier e Using both the times package and ptmr8r as the defaultfont resulted in all labels typeset in Times Slightly different results occurred when the macros were input e The LaTeX size and non PS font changing commands did not affect the text either quoted or btexed that was embedded in the label QMAC and labe1lBMAC macros e Using the times package resulted in the btexed text in macro labelBMAC being set in Courier instead of Times e Using both the times package and ptmr8r as the defaultfont resulted in all labels typeset in Times except for that in the label1BMAC macro which was set in Courier I can only surmise that the texts in the labelQMAC and labelBMAC macros were fixed at the time when TeX processed trymac mp My overall conclusions from the exp2. to the file TEXMF fontname special map otherwise the automatic font creation utilities could not find the FNT mf file The Appendix includes examples of the various files for one of my manuscript fonts The automatic font creation procedure creates files in directories TEXMF fonts tfm public FNT for the tfm files and in TEXMF fonts pk ljfour public FNT for the pk files if you use a mode other than ljfour then the pk files will be in a correspondingly different directory If tfm and pk files exists in these directories then METAFONT will not be called So when any changes are made to the FNT mf file the contents of these two directories must be deleted before the test document is LaTeXed I wrote another script that emptied the directories and then ran the test document called tryfont tex for this example This looks like script TRYIT to run testfont document echo removing FNT tfm and FNT pk files rm TEXMF fonts tfm public FNT tfm rm TEXMF fonts pk 1jfour public FNT pk echo typesetting latex tryfont echo Result in FNT dvi end TRYIT script LaTeX comes with a file called nfssfont tex which is designed for interactively testing a new font either instead of or as well as using a test file of your own making A typical session might look like this where the font under test is called rust10 latex nfssfont Normal latex startup messages Name of the new font to test rust10 Now type a test command help for
3. rustic sty Next is an example fd file for the T1 encoding The otirust fd file for the OT1 encoding is exactly the same except that everywhere T1 is replaced by OT1 Note that there is both a normal and a bold version of the font and it comes in three different sizes that is there are METAFONT files rust7 mf rust10 mf and rust17 mf for the normal font and files rustb7 mf rustb10 mf and rustb17 mf for the bold version Slanted styles and distinctive capital letters were unkown at the time this bookhand was in use Ah This is file tirust fd DeclareFontFamily T1i rust DeclareFontShape T1 rust m n lt 8 5 gt rust7 lt 8 5 15 gt rust10 lt 15 gt rust17 DeclareFontShape Ti rust m sl lt gt sub rust m n DeclareFontShape Ti rust m it lt gt sub rust m n DeclareFontShape Ti rust m sc lt gt sub rust m n DeclareFontShape T1i rust m u lt gt sub rust m n DeclareFontShape T1 rust bx n lt 8 5 gt rustb7 lt 8 5 15 gt rustbi0 lt 15 gt rustb17 DeclareFontShape T1 rust bx it lt gt sub rust bx n DeclareFontShape T1 rust bx sl lt gt sub rust bx n DeclareFontShape T1i rust b n lt gt sub rust bx n endinput hh End of file tirust fd 14 Finally here is a LaTeX test file I tend to use the same basic file for all my fonts just changing the package font commands and font name appropriately hhh tryfont t
4. tiny abc figs par end center begin center The font in the tiny size par rustfamily tiny ABC abc figs par end center begin center Some ligatures in the normal font textrust the lazy dog but quick fox end center rustfamily sentence Sentence This is the end of the test file end document B MetaPost btexed processing In response to an earlier version of this document Daniel Luecking provided the following explanation of btexed processing When MetaPost inputs a file and it encounters a btex etex group not in quotes it calls MPtoTeX to scan the whole file and extract btex etex groups and writes a temporary tex file with a name like mpx4527 tex though the exact rule for generating a unique name is either system dependent or a compile time choice Any verbatimtex block is copied verbatim but the btex blocks are wrapped in some special TeX code For example suppose the mp file contains btex hskip 2 2bp Q etex then the tex file gets something like the following shipout hbox smash hbox hbox line 10 test mp hskip 2 2bp Q vrule widthisp end document 16 You can run MPtoTeX seperately and see exactly what is written in any case Note the end document in plain TeX everything after end is ignored After all the btex etex groups are processed in this way TeX is called and a dvi file is produced Then the program DVItoMP
5. in order to get the systems to run It is offered in the hope that it might be useful to others and comes with a request for corrections or additions to my remarks 1 1 Conventions I work on a couple of different un x boxes and use the teTeX distribution so some of my remarks may have to be translated if you are on another kind of box or have a different distribution Pll use TETEX as the root of the TeX directory system In my case this is something like opt teTeX so the directory TETEX texmf is actually opt teTeX texmf As another shorthand I ll use TEXMF to stand for TETEX texmf I will also use as the system prompt when I want to show an example terminal session 2 General The METAFONTbook Knu86 is indispensable if you want to use METAFONT for creating your own fonts MetaPost is based on METAFONT and was developed by John Hobby Hob92 Although the user manual explains pretty much everything about the language I found the META FONTbook was a useful supplement Both GRM97 and Hoe98 give examples of MetaPost code the cover illustration on Hoenig s book is a MetaPost picture MetaPost produces Encapsulated PostScript and Keith Reckdahl describes how this can be best imported into LaTeX documents Rec97 When documenting METAFONT or MetaPost code I use the conventions of the LaTeX DOCSTRIP utility and the doc package GMS94 Unsurprisingly I supplement the doc pack age with the docmfp package Wil99 which I develo
6. is called to process the dvi file and produce an mpx file In the dvi file the following information resides 1 the relative movement needed to get from the reference point of the hbox to the reference point of the lettter Q given the above example 2 the font it is from 3 the location of the bottom and top of the rule and 4 a magnification This enables DVItoMP to determine the location of Q and the bounding box of the whole hbox and then write to the mpx file something equivalent to picture _p _p nullpicture addto P also Q infont cmri0 scaled 1 shifted 2 2 0 setbounds _p to After this the btex etex group is internally replaced by a reference to the picture _p Note that MPtoTeX is called whenever a new file is input and it processes the entire file in one pass If you have another file input to the main mp file this is a seperate process A consequence of this is that the input file needs its own verbatimtez block This explains the problem with your PW experiment running MetaPost on try mp MPtoTeX writes a tex file containing the verbatimtex plus the two btex groups LaTeX processes this file OK Now MetaPost inputs trymac mp and encounters no verbatimtex but three btex s It writes a second tex file with no LaTeX header and runs LaTeX since that was what the TEX environment variable was set to and LaTeX encounters hbox BTEXT Since no LaTeX setup has occurred there is no default f
7. other is by enclosing the characters within a btex etex pairing e g btex the text etex which I will term btezred 3This should be available in any modern LaTeX distribution In the quoted case the characters appear to be output just as written This may cause problems as the cm fonts do not include spaces and the glyph mapping is somewhat idiosyn chratic This means that you may not see what you expected in the final picture However if the quoted text consists only of the alphanumeric characters i e no spaces punctuation etc then I haven t found any problems In the btexed case MetaPost by some process I do not understand uses TeX to generate the typeset text TeX commands can be used in the normal manner as part of the text If you prefer LaTeX to TeX then the default has to be changed This requires two things to be done 1 MetaPost uses an environment variable called TEX If this is either unset or equals tex then TeX is used for typesetting To use LaTeX this must be set to latex On my system this can be done in either a login file or temporarily for a session In my case the commands for a session are TEX latex export TEX 2 At the start of a MetaPost file TeX or LaTeX commands can be put between a verbatimtex etex pairing The appropriate LaTeX commands must be put there if LaTeX is to be used For example verbatimtex documentclass article usepackage newcommand begin
8. problem I did the following e Copied gray mf to gray original mf e Edited gray mf by commenting out the imagen line and added an 1jfour line so that the file then looked like gray mf input grayimagen standard gray font is for imagen input grayljfour gray font for ljfour mode end gray mf e Copied grayimagen mf to grayljfour mf and edited this to become grayljfour mf if mode lt gt ljfour errmessage This file is for ljfour only fi font_identifier GRAYLJFOUR boolean lightweight input grayf end grayljfour mf e I kept all the files in the same public misc directory To generate a proof font I do mf FNT gftodvi FNT 2602gf and the proof output is written to FNT dvi It can then be viewed in the normal manner normally I find that using xdvi is usually adequate instead of hardcopy Actually I put the commands into a script as any new font needs lots of checking and revision For example script pFNT to generate proof font for FNT mf FNT gftodvi FNT 2602gf echo echo Proof output in FNT dvi end pFNT script After I got some proof characters that I was happy with I then used them in a normal LaTeX document to see how they appeared at normal size and how they fitted together This involved writing a small test file a package to enable the new font to be used easily and font description fd files I also found that I had to add line s like FNT mf public FNT
9. spent some time trying to work out how to change the size of the fonts for MetaPost text The answer depends on what you are doing and I ran a series of experiments to try and make some sense out of what was and was not happening when I changed things Some things are still a mystery to me though I wrote a short MetaPost file that included all the combinations of ways I have used to specify labels These are e Text specified as either quoted or btexed e Fixed text within a macro e A macro with a text argument e The normal MetaPost label in the body of a diagram The following is a snapshot of the MetaPost file used for the experiments in its state below it tests for using LaTeX with the times package and the default font set to ptmr8r also for Times try mp fiddle with MetaPost fonts prologues 2 verbatimtex documentclass article documentclass 12pt article usepackage times renewcommand familydefault cmss begin document tiny etex defaultfont ptmr8r uses PostScript font Zdefaultfont cmssi0 uses different TeX font Zdefaultscale 1 2 scales font hhhhhh next set of definitions have been put into file trymac mp numeric u u 1mm def labelQMAC suffix fixed quoted macro label rt QMAC z fenddef ydef labelBMAC suffix fixed btexed macro label rt btex BMAC etex z Jenddef 10 ydef labelTEXT suffix text str label rt s
10. variable holding mps the concatenated input file name and the extension M name_list input_file mps Join the string variables in the name_list variable into a single string variable output_file join name_list create a list variable composed to the parameters needed for the system copy command excution exec_list cp ARGV 0 output_file Execute the system copy cp command system exec_list HHEHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEHHHHHHE end perl script HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEE To copy the pic N files all you have to do is n2mps pic 2 The second method as pointed out by Daniel Luecking is to declare the extension via DeclareGraphicsRule at some point in the document before any graphics are included or in a seperate graphics configuration file His example is For example DeclareGraphicsRule foo mps bar says to treat file graphic foo just like graphic mps and to look for the Bounding Box in graphic bar The special form DeclareGraphicsRule mps says to treat any extension not otherwise declared as if it were mps and search the graphic file itself for the Bounding Box The full story is in grfguide ps Car99 4 2 TeX or LaTeX By default MetaPost uses the TeX cmr10 font for typesetting labels text There are basically two ways of specifying text One is by enclosing the characters within double quotes e g the text which I will term quoted The
11. Some Experiences in Running METAFONT and MetaPost Peter Wilson CUA now at peter r wilson boeing com 10 June 2000 Abstract Although the manuals describing the METAFONT and MetaPost languages are good the instructions for actually running the programs are somewhat weaker This article describes some of the things that I have learnt in this respect and may be helpful to others who are starting along the Meta trail Contents 1 Introduction Ted Conventions e osua a ave es eve de ee Be oe ee Bi ee aes B 2 General 3 METAFONT 4 MetaPost AUN PAN Ea Me ia inci iM a Ube AON mt NE BRE SAN en a Me aes 4 2 TeX ior LaTeX nni ols ay Rao te So Re ok Bp SO BON eg Oe ee 43 gt Postocriptfonts 2 foc acy A oe od Soke Tye Be Pes a tee Ee 4 4 Font styles and sizes 2 a a e a aa at O ee A Example files for a METAFONT font B MetaPost btexed processing List of Tables 1 MetaPost label typesetting 2 2 0 0 eee es With additional insights and contributions by Daniel Luecking luecking comp uark edu On orn 14 16 12 1 Introduction When I started using METAFONT and later MetaPost there was sufficient documentation available so that I could produce workable code The problem was that I could not find much documentation on how to run them to see if my code actually worked This is just a short summary of the results of keeping a watchful eye on questions and answers on comp text tex and other experiments
12. document etex If you are using LaTeX there is the emp package Oh197 which lets you embed MetaPost code within the LaTeX document itself rather than having it as seperate file s If you use this approach then the TEX environment variable must of course be set to latex The user manual should be consulted for how to deal with the verbatimtex etex group When the normal TeX fonts are used they are not included within the generated En capsulated PostScript files This is allright if they are to be used in a TeX document but often not if they are to be used in other ways perhaps just being printed by themselves I generate a stand alone PostScript file by LaTeXing a document that consists only of the MetaPost graphic no page numbers no captions no nothing else I then use dvips to con vert the dvi file to PostScript which will now include all the font information I can then use this as I want but read Reckdahl s advice Rec97 as sometimes further manipulation is required But see later on page 16 4 3 PostScript fonts MetaPost can be made to use PostScript fonts and providing the texts don t require any special TeX processing then use of TeX or LaTeX may be avoided altogether In order to do this certain requirements have to be put on the contents of the MetaPost file 1 The file must begin with the line prologues 2 which will add a font related prologue to the generated PS files 2 The default fo
13. eriments are e Changing the defaultfont and or defaultscale only affects quoted text e LaTeX and TeX commands only affect btexed text e Be vigilant when using both input macros and LaTeX Sven de Vries discovered the following when using the MetaPost graph package and using cmr7 as the default font He said I realized that in defaultfont cmr7 for u 20 step 80 until 500 otick bot format ge3 u 10 u 10 10 u endfor Email dated 3 December 1999 devries mathematik tu muenchen de 13 only the letters e3 are changed to cmr7 While searching through the format file I found that Fmfont_ cmr7 is a way to fix it A Example files for a METAFONT font Here is an example of various files for one of the manuscript fonts namely the Roman Rustic font The documented originals of these are on CTAN in fonts bookhands rustic rustic dtx Full descriptions of how to install new fonts for use by LaTeX can be found in any of Lat98 GMS94 Hoe98 The first file is a package file that caters for both OT1 and T1 font encoding schemes hh This is file rustic sty NeedsTeXFormat LaTeX2e ProvidesPackage rustic 1999 05 01 v1 0 package for Roman Rustic fonts providecommand Tienc T1 ifx Tienc encodingdefault newcommand rustfamily usefont T1 rust m n else newcommand rustfamily usefont 0T1 rust m n fi DeclareTextFontCommand textrust rustfamily endinput hh End of file
14. ex Test Roman Rustic fonts documentclass article usepackage rustic newcommand ABC ABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ newcommand abc abcdefghijkl mnopqrstuvwxyz newcommand punct 7 amp O newcommand figs 0123456789 newcommand dashes newcommand sentence this is an example of the roman rustic font now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party while the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog newcommand Sentence This is an example of the Roman Rustic font Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of the party while the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog title Try Roman Rustic Fonts author date begin document maketitle This provides a short test of the characters in the Roman Rustic fonts the verb rust font family begin center The Rustic Huge normal font par rustfamily Huge ABC abc punct dashes figs par end center begin center The Rustic font in its normal size textrust ABC abc figs end center begin center The bold minuscule font the normal minuscule font and the bold Computer Modern Roman all in the normal size textrust textbf abc figs textrust abc figs textbf abc figs end center 15 begin center The bold versions in Huge and tiny sizes par rustfamily bfseries Huge abc figs par
15. font cmss10 X X X font ptmr8r T C T C T C LaTeX integrated macro definitions 12pt X X X tiny X X X family cmss X X X package times C T C T C T times amp ptmr8r T T T T T T LaTeX input macro definitions 12pt X X tiny X X family cmss X X package times C C C T C T times amp ptmr8r T C T T T T and defaultscale values e When using the PostScript Times font the quoted text is typeset in Times Oddly the btexed text e g btex text etex appears to be typeset in a kind of Courier font e The effects of changing the defaultfont and defaultscale are independent of whether macros are input from another file or are integral to the diagram file Some of the results when LaTeX font changing commands were used are more problem atical First though I came across a peculiarity when inputing the trymac mp file When the first attempt at doing this in a working session was using LaTeX typesetting MetaPost always reported errors at the labelBMAC macro definition and was unable to complete the processing of trymac mp An extract from a typical mpxerr 1log file looked like This is TeX version 3 14159 C version 6 1 format latex 98 11 5 batchmode input mpx4662 mpx4662 tex Missing character There is no B in font nullfont 1 I can t find file mpx4662 aux xxx job aborted file error in nonstop mode Also each time the mpx4662 was reported with a different number e g
16. from CTAN with the MetaPost distribution at graphics metapost Alan Hoenig TeX Unbound Oxford University Press 1998 Donald E Knuth The METAFONTbook Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1986 LaTeX3 Project Team LaTeX 2e font selection April 1998 Available from CTAN as macros latex doc fntguide ps Thorsten Ohl EMP Encapsulated MetaPost for LaTeX November 1997 Avail able from CTAN at latex macros contrib supported emp Keith Reckdahl Using EPS Graphics in LaTeX2e Documents February 1997 Available from CTAN as info epslatex ps Peter Wilson The docmfp package 1999 Available from CTAN at latex macros contrib supported docmfp See http www tug org for information on accessing CTAN the Comprehen sive TeX Archive Network 18
17. help table 1 bye see the transcript file for additional information Output written on nfssfont dvi 1 page 6040 bytes Transcript written on nfssfont log dvips nfssfont After latex prints the usual startup messages you are asked for the name of a font to test In the example I responded with rust10 as the name of the font note that there is no file extension You are then invited to type a command the nfssfont prompt is I responded with table which generates a table containing all the characters in the font At the next prompt I said bye which ends the session The resulting nfssfont dvi file can then be printed for inspection Typing help at any prompt will list a brief description of the available commands on the terminal Finally iterate and iterate and iterate until you are satisfied with your new font in all its possible uses 4 MetaPost The first problem that I had when trying to run MetaPost was that the command given in the user manual namely mp wrote a bunch of PostScript code to the terminal but otherwise was no help I eventually figured out that the correct command for my system is mpost Having a file pic mp containing MetaPost figures and running mpost pic will produce a set of output files called pic N where each N corresponds to the beginfig N command in pic mp These are Encapsulated PostScript files and can be used within a LaTeX document via the normal includegraphics command For e
18. nt must be changed What has to be changed depends on the desired font For example to use Times Roman put defaultfont ptm8r just after the prologues line For this incantation to work the file ptmr8mr tfm must exist in a location where MetaPost looks for tfm files On my system this file is in directory TEXMF fonts tfm adobe times Also the file psfonts map must include a line like ptm8r Times Roman Again on my system psfonts map is in directory TEXMF dvips misc I don t know whether this all works if you don t have a LaTeX installation but if you are are reading this it s unlikely that you don t have one Daniel Luecking has the following comments on the above You don t necessarily need to change the default font What you need is a line in psfonts map say if the BSR fonts are used cmr10 CMR10 and support in your PostScript viewer for CMR10 For Ghostscript a line like the following in Fontmap CMR10 cmr10 pfb and the directory containing cmr10 pfb in the Ghostscript search path You still need prologues 2 You don t need a LaTeX installation to use MetaPost in this way but you still need a tfm file and psfonts map and MetaPost must be looking for them in the right places It is extremely unlikely that you will have all this without it being part of a system that includes LaTeX 5Blue Sky Research Type 1 PostScript versions of the cm fonts 4 4 Font styles and sizes I have
19. ont and you get the complaint There is no B in nullfont Since none of the LaTeX preamble occurs no aux file was written and end document which MPtoTeX puts at the end of all its tex files just in case complains that there is no aux file When you set TEX tex and run MetaPost first the trymac mpx file is created When you then set TEX latex trymac mpx already exists As long as it is newer than trymac mp then MPtoTeX etc will not be called to make it and that run seems to succeed except none of the LaTeX commands ever got into that tex file I m not sure why you got Courier font in some examples unless there is a substitution rule somewhere in the chain from MetaPost to viewing for fonts that can t be found I usually get an error from Ghostscript References Car99 D P Carlisle Packages in the graphics bundle January 1999 Available from CTAN as macros latex required graphics grfguide ps GMS94 Michel Goossens Frank Mittelbach and Alexander Samarin The LaTeX Com panion Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1994 17 GRM97 Michel Goossens Sebastian Rahtz and Frank Mittelbach The LaTeX Graphics Hob92 Hoe98 Knu86 Lat98 Oh197 Rec97 Wil99 Note Companion Addison Wesley Publishing Company 1997 John D Hobby A user s manual for MetaPost Computing Science Technical Report no 162 AT amp T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill NJ April 1992 Available
20. ped for METAFONT and MetaPost code 3 METAFONT My method of learning to use METAFONT for fontmaking was to study others code and then try and adapt bits and pieces to my purposes Some of the results are on CTAN The fonts in fonts archaic are very simple rectilinear glyphs as they are based on scratched lettering on walls or pottery from about 1000 to 400BC Some manuscript fonts written with a broad nibbed pen and much more curved are in fonts bookhands The Trajan 1 Among others Brian Elmegaard be et dtu dk has been very responsive to queries about MetaPost font is more complex again as it is a constructed uppercase seriffed font based on a Roman inscription dated 114AD and is in fonts trajan The command to run METAFONT is mf on my system but it might differ on yours and Pll use FNT to stand for the name of a new font so correspondingly the name of the main METAFONT file is FNT mf I found it useful to create a directory called TEXMF fonts source public FNT in which to do the METAFONTing An important part of the font design process is viewing large proofs of the characters A special gray font is used for this purpose I use the common ljfour 600dpi printer mode but the first time I tried to produce a proof I got an error regarding the mode and it took a while to get over this hurdle The gray fonts are in TEXMF fonts source public misc but as provided they are only for an imagen 300dpi printer To fix the
21. ript n2mps Call as n2mps basename List each file basename in the directory and run the Perl script to copy each basename N to basenameN mps where N is an integer Copyright 2000 Mauro S Costa and Peter R Wilson HHHHHHHHAHERHHHHHHHHHHHAAA HAAR EER HERR H HARE HH RAHA basename 1 7 A file basename is required extname N mps echo Files basename N where N is a number will be copied to basename extname for file in ls basename do n2mpsprl prl file done HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH end shell script HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHEH usr local bin perl w HHHHHHHHHAREHHHHHHHHHHAAHHHA AREER HHHRRR HAAR HHH RRR H HHS Perl script n2mpsprl prl Call as n2mpsprl prl filename If filename is of the form basename N where N is an integer copies file basename N to file basenameN mps Copyright 2000 Mauro S Costa and Peter R Wilson HHHHHHHHHHE HEHEHE HHHHHHAEH HAAR EER HH HRA H HAAR HERR HHH Test for correct number of input parameters die Invalid command line arguments nTry 0 lt src gt n if ARGV gt 1 die Invalid command line arguments nTry 0 lt src gt n if ARGV lt 0 Assign input file name to variable input_file ARGV O test if ends with a number exit if not if input_file w d else exit Remove the dot from the string variable holding the input file name input_file s Create a list variable composed of the string
22. tr z henddef hhhhhh end of contents of trymac mp input trymac beginfig 1 Ahhh Fixed text in a macro z11 0 0 label QMAC 11 z12 0 10u labelBMAC 12 hhhh Macro with a text argument 213 0 20u label TEXT 13 QTEXT z14 0 30u label TEXT 14 btex BTEXT etex hhhh normal labeling z21 50u 0 label rt QOUT 221 z22 50u 10u label rt btex BOUT etex z22 endfig end fig 1 end Different conditions were tested by commenting and uncommenting appropriate lines at the start of the file As another axis to the experiments they were performed once with the macro definitions input from the seperate trymac mp and repeated with the macro macro with text argument definitions explicitly written integrated in try mp In the table of results Table 1 a check mark in a column indicates that the typeset label was modified as a result of changing the font and or size values For labels typeset with the PostScript Times font being specified T indicates the Times font and C indicates a Courier like font The following summarises the experimental results which are common to both TeX and LaTeX typesetting e Only quoted text e g quoted text is affected by changes to the defaultfont 11 Table 1 MetaPost label typesetting Setting QMAC BMAC QTEXT BTEXT QOUT BOUT TeX and LaTeX integrated and input macro definitions scale 1 2 X X X
23. xample begin figure centering includegraphics pic 3 caption end figure For proof viewing of MetaPost results there is a file called mproof tex which should be in your LaTeX distribution Doing tex mproof pic 1 pic 2 where pic 1 pic 2 etc are MetaPost output files will generate mproof dvi containing the MetaPost generated Encapsulated PostScript diagrams This can then be viewed in the normal manner 4 1 pdf LaTeX pdfLaTeX can not normally handle Encapsulated PostScript files but can handle MetaPost output files because of their particularly simple PostScript usage However pdfLaTeX expects these files to have a mps suffix Thus pic 3 would have to be renamed to someting like pic3 mps to be used by pdfLaTeX In the case of a single MetaPost diagram this is simple enough but could get tedious if there were many of them There are two solutions to this problem Not all screen viewers support Encapsulated PostScript so you may have to print the file 1 Noting that LaTeX will accept MetaPost output files with a mps extension write a script that will copy all files of the form pic N to picN mps Then you can use includegraphics pic3 mps without being concerned whether it will be processed by LaTeX or by pdfLaTeX Here is a pair of scripts that will do this One is a un x shell script and the other is a Perl script bin sh HHHHHHHHHHERHHHHHHHHHHHAEH HAAR EER HHHRA HAAR HRA H RRR Shell sc
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