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<h3>Displaying MetaPost output in <i>ghostscript</i></h3>
<p/>MetaPost ordinarily expects its output to be included in some context
-where the &lsquo;standard&rsquo; Metafont fonts (that you&rsquo;ve specified) are already
-defined &mdash; for example, as a figure in TeX document. If you&rsquo;re
+where the &#8216;standard&#8217; Metafont fonts (that you&#8217;ve specified) are already
+defined &#8212; for example, as a figure in TeX document. If you&#8217;re
debugging your MetaPost code, you may want to view it in
<i>ghostscript</i> (or some other PostScript previewer). However,
-the PostScript &lsquo;engine&rsquo; in <i>ghostscript</i> <em>doesn&rsquo;t</em>
-ordinarily have the fonts loaded, and you&rsquo;ll experience an error such
+the PostScript &#8216;engine&#8217; in <i>ghostscript</i> <em>doesn&#8217;t</em>
+ordinarily have the fonts loaded, and you&#8217;ll experience an error such
as
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ There is provision in MetaPost for avoiding this problem: issue the
command <code>prologues := 2;</code> at the start of the <code>.mp</code> file.
<p/>Unfortunately, the PostScript that MetaPost inserts in its output,
following this command, is incompatible with ordinary use of the
-PostScript in inclusions into (La)TeX documents, so it&rsquo;s best to
+PostScript in inclusions into (La)TeX documents, so it&#8217;s best to
make the <code>prologues</code> command optional. Furthermore, MetaPost takes a
very simple-minded approach to font encoding: since TeX font
encodings regularly confuse sophisticated minds, this can prove
-troublesome. If you&rsquo;re suffering such problems (the symptom is that
+troublesome. If you&#8217;re suffering such problems (the symptom is that
characters disappear, or are wrongly presented) the only solution is
-to view the &lsquo;original&rsquo; MetaPost output after processing through
+to view the &#8216;original&#8217; MetaPost output after processing through
LaTeX and <i>dvips</i>.
<p/>Conditional compilation may be done either
by inputting <i>MyFigure.mp</i> indirectly from a simple wrapper
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ or by issuing a shell command such as
mp '\prologues:=2; input MyFigure'
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
-(which will work without the quote marks if you&rsquo;re not using a Unix
+(which will work without the quote marks if you&#8217;re not using a Unix
shell).
<p/>A suitable LaTeX route would involve processing
<i>MyFigure.tex</i>, which contains:
@@ -66,15 +66,15 @@ dvips -E -o MyFigure.eps MyFigure
would then give a satisfactory Encapsulated PostScript file. This
procedure may be automated using the <i>Perl</i> script
<i>mps2eps</i>, thus saving a certain amount of tedium.
-<p/>The Plain TeX user may use an adaptation of a jiffy of Knuth&rsquo;s, by
-Dan Luecking. Dan&rsquo;s version <i>mpsproof.tex</i> will work under
+<p/>The Plain TeX user may use an adaptation of a jiffy of Knuth&#8217;s, by
+Dan Luecking. Dan&#8217;s version <i>mpsproof.tex</i> will work under
TeX to produce a DVI file for use with <i>dvips</i>, or
under PDFTeX to produce a PDF file, direct. The output is
set up to look like a proof sheet.
<p/>A script application, <i>mptopdf</i>, is available in recent
(La)TeX distributions: it seems fairly reliably to produce
PDF from MetaPost, so may reasonably be considered an answer to
-the question&hellip;
+the question&#8230;
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>mps2eps</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mps2eps.zip">support/mps2eps</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/mps2eps/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>mpsproof.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex">graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex</a>