[pdftex] Metapost in pdftex

[Maurí­cio]

Hi,

I've  read in  a document  named 'The  pdfTEX user
manual'  that Metapost is  the recommended  way of
using  pictures. Sorry  for  asking this  probably
obvious  question   here,  since  it   has  to  be
somewhere in some documentation, but I wasn't able
to find it: how do I include a Metapost picture in
a  pdfTEX  document?   Is  it  possible  to  write
Metapost code inside a  .tex file that is going to
be read by pdfTEX?

Thanks,
Maurício