[metapost] A couple of basic questions

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

Am Freitag, den 10.02.2006, 15:56 +1030 schrieb Will Robertson:

> Secondly: I'm not too sure what advantages latexmp has over just using
>    verbatimtex
>    %&latex
>    \documentclass{article}
>    % ...
>    \begin{document}
>    etex

input latexmp ;

verbatimtex
%&latex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
etex

setupLaTeXMP(textextlabel=true, multicolor=true) ;

color Lcolor ; Lcolor := (0,0.7,0.6) ;

beginfig(1);

for n=1 upto 5:
label.ulft(btex label \textbf{n} etex, (0,5mm*n)) ;
label.urt("label \textbf{" & decimal(n) & "}", (0,5mm*n)) ;
endfor;

label.bot("\parbox{2.8cm}{" &
"Try \textcolor{red}{macros} {\color[rgb]{0.8,0,0.7} " &
"from the {\LaTeX} \textcolor{blue}{color} package} " &
"without \textcolor{Lcolor}{latexMP}}", origin) ;

endfig;
end

> Is latexmp a "recommended" package?

i would recommend it :)

j.