[metapost] Metapost 9.0

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Thu May 5 12:06:00 CEST 2005


Dan Luecking wrote:
> At 12:02 PM 5/4/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thank you for the report, I will add the file in the next release.
>> (in fact, it never was in the distribution before this time, but it
>> makes sense to add it).
> 
> 
> mpost.mp is essantially just for use with fmtutil, and is added by 
> distribution packagers (just like tex.ini, latex.ini, etc.). It would make

ah, i must admit i never looked into the file; not using fmtutil (or memutil) i 
now understand why i occasionally ended up in this mpost vs plain default name 
mess (since progname is needed); this indirectness is way too fuzzy and using 
the ini suffix is cleaner indeed.

Hans

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