[tex-eplain] eplain usepackage problems on Mac OS X and cygwin

[Oleg Katsitadze]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:11:53PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> There is no actual "conversion" in this case.  pdftex simply knows how
> to read MetaPost files, as a (very) special case of .eps.  (Hans got the
> pdftex guys to implement it.)  

Do you mean that pdfTeX supports MetaPost files "natively"?
I always thought it was implemented as a macro
(\convertMPtoPDF that you mention). \pdfximage doesn't seem
to like MP files.

> \convertMPtoPDF or other context features may not require \write18,
> since tex is not being invoked directly.  I never looked into that.

No, it doesn't require \write18.  As far as I can tell, it
just parses MP files and transforms them into PDF objects
(see supp-pdf.tex).

Best,
Oleg