[metapost] MetaPost 1.201 announcement

[Taco Hoekwater]

The MetaPost team is happy to announce a new release of MetaPost:

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MetaPost 1.201
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The standalone distribution package and a win32 binary can be downloaded
immediately from

  http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost/

This release will also be available from CTAN soon, and it will be
included in the next TeXLive. The source package should compile normally
on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX
distribution.

The win32 binary is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based
installation, this executable will *not* work for miktex.

Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may
have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of
the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests.

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What is new in MetaPost version 1.201:
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Bug fixes:

* There was a bug where sometimes the outer contour of a glyph that was
  asked for via 'glyph X of' was missing from te output, depending on
  the path drawing order inside the Type1 font.

* Handling of MPTEXPRE label prefix files was broken.

* Font subsetting for 8-bit characters in Type1 fonts was broken.

* The use of "%{outputtemplate}" inside "outputtemplate" now generates
  an error.

* The first letter of the input file name was swallowed in the log file.

* There is some rudimentary support for infinite recursion trapping now,
  to help prevent segfaults&crashes due to C call stack exhaustion.

* An unlucky change in glibc made compilation fail on new GNU/Linux
  systems due to multiple incompatible definitions of 'getline()'.

* There was a bug in the handling of quoted external commands for
  MPXCOMMAND | MPXMAINCMD | TEX.

* The main input file's opening brace and filename were not shown in
  the log file output.

* Non-colored picture objects (clipping and setbounds paths) are now
  ignored when the color part is asked from within "within", for
  backward compatibility reasons.

* The trip and trap files are now part of the distribution and the
  mptrap files have been updated.

* The standard web2c argv[0] mem file mimicri was broken: 1.200 was
  always looking for "mpost.mem" even when called under another name.

* The manual pages for "mpost" and "dvitomp" have been updated, and the
  old "mp" manual page has been removed.

* The first letter of any missing input file name was not shown in the
  terminal error message.

* Output files are now once again written in the current directory even
  if an explicit source directory is given. This includes the creation
  of mpx files, but some trickery is used so that up-to-date existing
  mpx files from the source directory take precedence.


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Legal notice / license / bug reports
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MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby
at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont.  The MetaPost home page
is http://tug.org/metapost.

MetaPost is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec,
http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/metapost; please report bugs and
request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you
can reach us through the <metapost at tug.org> mailing list as well.

Have fun!

Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, May 27, 2009.