[OS X TeX] Using MetaPost with TeXshop

[Claus Gerhardt]

I made a similar experience some time ago. But since I use  the 
excellent Latex package mfpic everything works fine and smoothly. I 
highly recommend it.

Claus


On Freitag, August 30, 2002, at 06:42  Uhr, Mark Guzdial wrote:

> I'm taking my first trip into MetaPost.  I've figured out that I have 
> to say "prologues := 2;" at the top of a MetaPost file to keep 
> Ghostscript from complaining.  But now, even when I type verbatim code 
> from various MetaPost documents, I can't get TeXshop to show anything!
>
> I have the below entered into testmeta.tex.  I choose MetaPost from 
> the Typeset menu, and it turns without error.  But the PDF view is 
> empty.  I've tried to sic MacGhostViewX directly on the MetaPost 
> output (e.g., testmeta.1 renamed to testmeta.eps), but it gives me 
> lots of errors about /Resources/Font/Nimbus not being found.
>
> Is anyone using MetaPost in TeXshop?  Any advice?  or perhaps a 
> working example that I can play with?
>
> Thanks!
>  Mark
>
> prologues:=2;
> input boxes;
>
> beginfig(1);
> draw (0,0)..(50,20)..(40,30)..(30,20);
> endfig;
>
> beginfig(-2);
>
> boxjoin(a.se=b.sw; a.ne=b.sw);
>
> boxit.a("12");
> boxit.b("987");
> boxit.c("39");
> boxit.d("-12");
> boxit.e("...");
> drawboxed(a,b,c,d,e);
>
> label.bot("1",a.s);
> label.bot("2",b.s);
> label.bot("3",c.s);
> label.bot("4",d.s);
>
> endfig;
>
> end
>
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Claus Gerhardt
Institut für Angewandte Mathematik
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 294
69120 Heidelberg
Germany

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