[metapost] format.mp and mptopdf

[Hans Hagen]

Stephan Hennig wrote:
> Hans Hagen schrieb:
> 
>>Stephan Hennig wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I didn't find any, neither in my MiKTeX distribution nor when searching
>>>CTAN and Google for mptopdf or metafun. Could you please give a pointer?
>>
>>www.pragma-ade.com (or mirror) -> documents
> 
> 
> Thanks for the link, but I only found one document there dealing with
> mptopdf: metafun-s.pdf. On page 546 ff. one can read:
> 
> | Given that the previously mentioned format is generated, you can say:
> |
> | mptopdf somefile
> | mptopdf somefile.123
> | mptopdf mp*.*
> 
> as I learned earlier, but then
> 
> | This script can also process METAPOST files directly:
> |
> | mptopdf somefile.mp
> 
> I think this stuff is still confusing me. Should mptopdf be able to
> process mp files or not?

yes, but it defaults to metafun; use --raw for pure mpost processing

Hans


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