<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Which kind MetaPost expert will help a novice? Here's progress so far :</DIV>
<DIV>prologues := 3;</DIV>
<DIV>verbatimtex<BR>\font\bigrm = cmr10<BR>\nopagenumbers<BR>\parindent = 0 bp<BR>\bigrm<BR>\hsize = 287 bp<BR>etex</DIV>
<DIV>pair A;<BR>A := (300, 400);</DIV>
<DIV>beginfig(1)<BR>label (btex<BR>\vbox{<BR>``Heaven helps those who help themselves'' is a well-tried maxim,<BR>embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience.<BR>The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the<BR>individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the<BR>true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is<BR>often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably<BR>invigorates. Whatever is done FOR men or classes, to a certain<BR>extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for<BR>themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-<BR>government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively<BR>helpless.<BR>}<BR>etex, A);<BR>endfig<BR>end</DIV>
<DIV>This gives me a font that looks like Courier, when viewed with Gsview, instead of the requested cmr10. What am I doing wrong?<BR>The list of examples from LORIA, otherwise excellent, unfortunately does not show how to make a multi-line label.<BR>I prefer to not use TeX directly because I don't fully understand the Postscript that is generated by dvips.<BR>I am running Metapost 0.641 under Cygwin under XP.</DIV></td></tr></table><br>