[metapost] visible spaces

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the example below, from the mpman section "7.2 Font map files", gives
> visible spaces here (these |___| symbols). How to avoid them? No way
> without btex...etex? Maybe it should be mentioned in the manual section
> too.

You need an encoding that does not map /visiblespace onto 0x20, like
texnansi. This should work (it does here):

prologues := 3;
fontmapfile "texnansi-lm.map";
beginfig(1)
draw "Hell, vilg" infont "texnansi-lmr10";
endfig;
end

Best, Taco
PS  I will fix the mapfile name in the manual