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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label MP</title>
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+<h3>What is MetaPost?</h3>
+<p/>The MetaPost system (by John Hobby) implements a picture-drawing language
+very much like that of Metafont except that it outputs Encapsulated PostScript
+files instead of run-length-encoded bitmaps. MetaPost is a powerful
+language for producing figures for documents to be printed on PostScript
+printers, either directly or embedded in (La)TeX documents. It
+includes facilities for directly integrating TeX text and
+mathematics with the graphics. (Knuth tells us that he uses nothing
+but MetaPost for diagrams in text that he is writing.)
+<p/>Although PDFLaTeX cannot ordinarily handle PostScript graphics, the
+output of MetaPost is sufficiently simple and regular that PDFLaTeX
+can handle it direct, using code borrowed from ConTeXt &mdash; see
+<a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">graphics in PDFLaTeX</a>.
+<p/>Much of MetaPost&rsquo;s source code was copied from Metafont&rsquo;s sources, with
+Knuth&rsquo;s permission.
+<p/>A mailing list discussing MetaPost is available;
+
+ subscribe via the
+ <a href="http://lists.tug.org/metapost">TUG <i>mailman</a> interface</i>.
+The TUG website also hosts a
+<a href="http://tug.org/metapost.html">MetaPost summary page</a>.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=MP">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=MP</a>
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