[OS X TeX] metapost using pdflatex

[Joseph C. Slater]

Obviously I'm missing something, because I'm not finding much of 
anything in the way of documentation. If you have a simple example of 
how to make a standalone PDF (or eps for that matter!), I could probably 
make use of it. However, I have no idea of how ConTeXt fits into 
anything because I can't find a manual. Does it replace LaTeX? Does it 
replace the interface to MP? For now I'll have to just deal with 
non-stand alone .mps files. I know this can't be that hard, but without 
the document that says how it works, I'm dead in the water. However, the 
change the extension to .mps and use it directly in pdflatex is probably 
good enough.

Thanks,
Joe


On Saturday, March 23, 2002, at 12:46  PM, Arun Mangalam wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just as Radhakrishnan suggested, ConTeXt has internal support for 
> MetaPost. You can easily create STANDALONE MetaPost pdf's [or any 
> picture/movies for that matter]. In fact, I asked about that in the 
> ConTeXt mailing list. :)
>
> - Arun
>
> P.S. Here's an interesting stand-alone example embedding a jpeg with 
> MetaPost:
>
> \setupcolors[state=start]
>
> \startMPclip{text clip}
> 	clip currentpicture to fullcircle shifted (.5,.5)
> 		xscaled \width yscaled \height ;
> \stopMPclip
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{clip outline}
> 	draw fullcircle
> 		xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight
> 		withpen pencircle scaled 3mm
> 		withcolor .625red ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \defineoverlay
> 	[clip outline]
> 	[\useMPgraphic{clip outline}]
>
> \starttext
> 	\startTEXpage[scale=3000,offset=5pt]
> 		{\framed
> 			[background=clip outline,offset=overlay,frame=off]
> 			{\clip
> 				[nx=1,ny=1,mp=text clip]
> 			
> 	{\externalfigure[escher_ascending][type=jpg,width=3cm,height=3cm]}}}
> 	\stopTEXpage
> \stoptext
>
> On Friday, March 22, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Joseph C. Slater wrote:
>
>> I've tried using metapost to generate eps files, convert them to pdf, 
>> and embed them into pdflatex, but the text doesn't show up in the eps 
>> or the pdf file. Going the old latex->dvi->ps->pdf works fine, but I'd 
>> like to stick to pdflatex if possible (I'm getting comfortable with 
>> it). Is there another way at it using metapost (like metapdf?).
>> thanks,
>> Joe
>
>
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