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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html index aff6d6e4f29..e6e58665fd5 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-mpprologues.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <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 +<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 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Error: /undefined in cmmi10 </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, +<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 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ 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 +<p/>Conditional compilation may be done either by inputting <i>MyFigure.mp</i> indirectly from a simple wrapper <i>MyFigureDisplay.mp</i>: <blockquote> @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ mp '\prologues:=2; input MyFigure' </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 +<p/>A suitable LaTeX route would involve processing <i>MyFigure.tex</i>, which contains: <blockquote> <pre> @@ -66,12 +66,12 @@ 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’s, by +<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 +<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... @@ -80,5 +80,5 @@ the question... <dt><tt><i>mpsproof.tex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex">graphics/metapost/contrib/misc/mpsproof.tex</a> <dt><tt><i>mptopdf</i></tt><dd>Part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/pdftex/graphics.zip">macros/pdftex/graphics</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/pdftex/graphics.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/pdftex/graphics/">browse</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> +<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> |