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This README file for the MetaPost distribution is public domain.

MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at
AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. 

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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

- The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost.

- The <metapost@tug.org> mailing list is for general help and discussion
  of MetaPost; to subscribe, visit http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost.

- MetaPost development is currently hosted at supelec.fr; visit
  https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost for the current development
  team members, sources, and much else.
  
- Please report bugs and request enhancements either on the
  metapost@tug.org list, or through the trackers at Supelec.fr.  
  (Please do not send reports directly to Dr. Hobby any more.)

This README file merely describes this packaging and source layout of
the MetaPost system.  See INSTALL for some installation help, and
CHANGES for recent and not-so-recent improvements to MetaPost.

The source installation package has been created by extracting the
bits and pieces of TeX Live 2008 that are absolutely needed to compile
Metapost in such a way that it can be plugged into an existing
web2c-based installation afterwards. See http://tug.org/texlive/ for more
information.

The executable that is created by the build process is named mpost. 
As is normal in current TeX systems, this executable functions as both
inimp and virmp by means of a command-line switch.

The source for MetaPost is src/texk/web2c/mpdir/*.w

Have fun!

Direc­to­ries

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manual
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texmf
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tutorial

Files

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CHANGES 52046 2010-10-19 09:58:28
COPYING 17982 2010-10-19 09:58:28
COPYING.LESSER 7639 2010-10-19 09:58:28
INSTALL 1072 2010-10-19 09:58:28
INSTALL.W32 428 2010-10-19 09:58:28
README 1890 2010-10-19 09:58:28
build.sh 3930 2010-10-19 09:58:28

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meta­post – A de­vel­op­ment of Meta­font for cre­at­ing graph­ics

Meta­Post uses a lan­guage based on that of Meta­font to pro­duce pre­cise tech­ni­cal il­lus­tra­tions. Its out­put is scal­able PostScript or SVG, rather than the bitmaps Meta­font cre­ates.

Doc­u­men­ta­tion Draw­ing boxes with Meta­Post
Draw­ing graphs with Meta­Post
Changes in dis­tri­bu­tion
Readme
In­tro­duc­tion to Meta­Post
Meta­Post man­ual
Home pagehttp://tug.org/meta­post
Ver­sion1.212
Li­censeGNU Li­brary Gen­eral Public Li­cense
Main­tainerTaco Hoek­wa­ter
John Hobby (in­ac­tive)
Con­tained inTeXLive as meta­post
MiKTeX as /mik­tex-meta­post-bin-2.9
Topics graph­ics gen­er­a­tor whose out­put is good for use with TeX
See also asymp­tote
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