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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-MP.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-MP.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..40723a3397a --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-MP.html @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label MP</title> +</head><body> +<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 - see +<a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">graphics in PDFLaTeX</a>. +<p>Much of MetaPost's source code was copied from Metafont's sources, with +Knuth'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> +</body> |