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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html deleted file mode 100644 index 5c5e71bb957..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label mpprologues</title> -</head><body> -<h3>Displaying MetaPost output in <i>ghostscript</i></h3> -<p/>MetaPost ordinarily expects its output to be included in some context -where the ‘standard’ Metafont fonts (that you’ve specified) are already -defined — for example, as a figure in TeX document. If you’re -debugging your MetaPost code, you may want to view it in -<i>ghostscript</i> (or some other PostScript previewer). However, -the PostScript ‘engine’ in <i>ghostscript</i> <em>doesn’t</em> -ordinarily have the fonts loaded, and you’ll experience an error such -as -<blockquote> -<pre> -Error: /undefined in cmmi10 -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -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’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’re suffering such problems (the symptom is that -characters disappear, or are wrongly presented) the only solution is -to view the ‘original’ 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 -<i>MyFigureDisplay.mp</i>: -<blockquote> -<pre> -prologues := 2; -input MyFigure -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -or by issuing a shell command such as -<blockquote> -<pre> -mp '\prologues:=2; input MyFigure' -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -(which will work without the quote marks if you’re not using a Unix -shell). -<p/>A suitable LaTeX route would involve processing -<i>MyFigure.tex</i>, which contains: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\documentclass{article} -\usepackage{graphicx} -\begin{document} -\thispagestyle{empty} -\includegraphics{MyFigure.1} -\end{document} -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -Processing the resulting DVI file with the <i>dvips</i> -command -<blockquote> -<pre> -dvips -E -o MyFigure.eps MyFigure -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -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’s, by -Dan Luecking. Dan’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… -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>mps2eps</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mps2eps.zip">support/mps2eps</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/mps2eps/">browse the directory</a>) -<dt><tt><i>mpsproof.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex">graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/mpsproof.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>mptopdf</i></tt><dd>Part of <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/tools/mptopdf.zip">graphics/metapost/contrib/tools/mptopdf</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/tools/mptopdf/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pdf-mps-supp.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mpprologues">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mpprologues</a> -</body> |