% File: README % A part of mfpic 1.06 2011/03/08 % MFpic defines a command group \mfpic...\endmfpic (optionally in LaTeX, an environment mfpic) and drawing commands to be used inside this group. When TeX (or LaTeX) is run on a file containing those commands, a MetaPost (or Metafont) source file is created. When that file is correctly processed by MetaPost (or Metafont), and LaTeX or TeX is run again, the result is a figure in the TeX document at the location of each environment. See install.txt for initial setup and brief installation instructions. See mfpguide.pdf for a short tutorial. See below for a summary of features added since the previous major release (1.00). See the manual mfpic-doc.pdf for more detailed instructions and descriptions of features. This is mfpic version 1.06. LICENSE ------- All files of the core mfpic distribution (listed below) may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2008/12/01 or later. DISCLAIMER ---------- While every effort has been made to make mfpic useful, it comes with no warranty, expressed or implied. MANIFEST -------- Here is a list, plus explanation of purpose, of all files in the mfpic distribution. Read it *before* trying to process any of the example files. These, and the files generated by running tex on mfpic.ins, constitute the mfpic distribution to which the LPPL applies. The five files marked with + below are the only ones essential to using all the facilities of mfpic. The three files marked with * below are sufficient to generate those essential files. The mfpic reference manual is mfpic-doc.pdf. A tutorial is available in mfpguide.pdf. Source files: ------------ * mfpic.dtx Contains mfpic.sty and mfpic.tex * grafbase.dtx Contains grafbase.mf, grafbase.mp and dvipsnam.mp * mfpic.ins The unpacking script: run tex or latex on it. It reads in mfpic.dtx and grafbase.dtx and produces the required run-time files mfpic.sty, mfpic.tex, grafbase.mf, grafbase.mp, and dvipsnam.mp TeX/LaTeX code: -------------- + mfpic.tex Basic TeX/LaTeX code + mfpic.sty LaTeX2e \usepackage wrapper for mfpic.tex MetaPost/Metafont code: ---------------------- + grafbase.mp MetaPost macros supporting mfpic + dvipsnam.mp Color definitions for MetaPost, input by grafbase.mp + grafbase.mf Metafont macros supporting mfpic Documentation: ------------- changes.txt Summary of 19 years of changes install.txt Basic information on installation README This file. mfpcard.pdf Precompiled reference card (usletter, landscape). mfpguide.pdf Precompiled tutorial (usletter paper size) mfpic-doc.pdf Precompiled manual (usletter paper size) mfpcard.tex plain TeX source for mfpcard.pdf, should fit on two sides of either USletter or A4, rotated. mfpguide.tex LaTeX source for mfpguide.pdf, requires mfpdoc.sty and the mfpic package. mfpic-doc.tex LaTeX source for mfpic-doc.pdf, requires mfpdoc.sty, lcheaders.ist amd coil.mps. mfpdoc.sty LaTeX style used by the above two lcheaders.ist makeindex style file for mfpic-doc.tex coil.mps Figure included in mfpic-doc.tex Examples: -------- pictures.tex Running tex on it produces pics.mp lapictures.tex Running latex on it produces same pics.mp data.dat Sample data file needed for above two forfun.tex Example of \mfsrc: running tex on it produces fun.mp This distribution, the latest updates, and some past versions, should also be available at my web site: http://comp.uark.edu/~luecking/tex/mfpic.html NEW FEATURES since Version 1.0 ------------------------------- -- bugfix in \vectorfield. (1.01) -- Work-around for some not-so-nice behavior of verbatimtex in some versions of MetaPost. (1.02) -- Bugfix in grafbase handling of color. (1.03) -- Bugfix in \mfresolution and \mfmode. (1.04) -- Changes to avoid namespace clashes in some internal macros. (1.05) -- Differential equation plotters \DEgraph and \DEtrajectory added. (1.06) -- Some internal macros changed, some documentation changes made. (1.01-1.06) -- Remove mfppatch.tex (which has never been used). (1.06) \sig Dan Luecking (luecking at uark dot edu) Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Arkansas Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701-1201 U.S.A.