<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Hello, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I am wondering about MetaPost's input facility.  A command something </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">like  "fscanf" might be very useful.    I am considering creating a MetaPost</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">program P that would require input as it is not for a specific drawing.   </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">My approach to this currently is to run a second program (written in C) to</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">create proper MetaPost input for the program P.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Many thanks in advance for your thoughts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Walt Burkhard</div></div>