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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label mfptutorials</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Metafont and MetaPost Tutorials</h3>
+<p/>Apart from Knuth&rsquo;s book, there seems to be only one publicly-available
+<a href="http://metafont.tutorial.free.fr/">tutorial for Metafont</a>, by
+Christophe Grandsire (a copy in PDF form may be downloaded).
+Geoffrey Tobin&rsquo;s <i>Metafont for Beginners</i>
+(see <a href="FAQ-useMF.html">using Metafont</a>) describes how the Metafont
+system works and how to avoid some of the potential pitfalls.
+<p/>There is also an article on how to run both Metafont and MetaPost (the
+programs). Peter Wilson&rsquo;s
+<i>Some Experiences in Running Metafont and MetaPost</i>
+offers the benefit of Peter&rsquo;s experience (he has designed a number of
+&lsquo;historical&rsquo; fonts using Metafont). For Metafont the article is geared
+towards testing and installing new Metafont fonts, while its MetaPost
+section describes how to use MetaPost illustrations in LaTeX and
+PDFLaTeX documents, with an emphasis on how to use appropriate
+fonts for any text or mathematics.
+<p/>
+
+
+
+<p/>Other MetaPost tutorials that have appeared are two in English by
+<a href="http://remote.science.uva.nl/~heck/Courses/mptut.pdf">Andr&eacute; Heck</a>
+and <a href="http://www.tlhiv.org/MetaPost/tutorial/">Urs Oswald</a>,
+and one in French (listed here because it&rsquo;s clearly enough written
+that even this author understands it), by
+<a href="http://pauillac.inria.fr/~cheno/metapost/metapost.pdf">Laurent Ch&eacute;no</a>;
+both have been recommended for inclusion in the FAQ
+<p/>Urs Oswald&rsquo;s tutorial is accompanied by a super tool (by Troy
+Henderson) for testing little bits of MetaPost, which is an invaluable
+aid to the learner: <a href="http://www.tlhiv.org/mppreview">http://www.tlhiv.org/mppreview</a>
+<p/>Vincent Zoonekynd&rsquo;s massive set of example MetaPost files is available on
+CTAN; the set includes a <i>Perl</i> script to convert the
+set to html, and the set may be
+<a href="http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html">viewed on the web</a>.
+While these examples don&rsquo;t exactly constitute a &ldquo;tutorial&rdquo;, they&rsquo;re
+most certainly valuable learning material. Urs Oswald presents a
+<a href="http://www.ursoswald.ch/metapost/tutorial.pdf">similar document</a>,
+written more as a document, and presented in PDF.
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>Beginners&rsquo; guide</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metafont/beginners/metafont-for-beginners.pdf">info/metafont/beginners/metafont-for-beginners.pdf</a>
+<dt><tt><i>Peter Wilson&rsquo;s &ldquo;experiences&rdquo;</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metafont/metafp/metafp.pdf">info/metafont/metafp/metafp.pdf</a>
+ (PDF format)
+<dt><tt><i>Vincent Zoonekynd&rsquo;s examples</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples.zip">info/metapost/examples</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/metapost/examples/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mfptutorials">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mfptutorials</a>
+</body>