CTAN update: mfpic
Date: December 6, 2012 4:07:37 PM CET
the daemon alerted me:
> Name of contribution: mfpic
> Author's name: Daniel H. Luecking
> Author's email: luecking at uark.edu
> Package version: 1.10
> Location on CTAN: graphics/mfpic/
> Summary description: Produce Metapost/Metafont pictures from (La)TeX commands.
> License type: lppl
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> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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> New commands to produce approximations to 3 kinds of gradient fills
> have been added, as well as several new figures.
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thanks for the upload; i've installed the new version, and updated the
catalogue repository.
> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/mfpic.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
> http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/mfpic/
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team
mfpic – Draw METAFONT/post pictures from (La)TeX commands
Mfpic is a scheme for producing pictures from (La)TeX commands. Commands \mfpic and \endmfpic (in LaTeX, the mfpic environment) enclose a group in which drawing commands may be placed.
The commands generate a Meta-language file, which may be processed by METAPOST (or even METAFONT). The resulting image file will be read back in to the document to place the picture at the point where the original (La)TeX commands appeared. Note that the ability to use METAPOST here means that the package works equally well in LaTeX and pdfLaTeX.
| Package | mfpic |
| Version | 1.10 |
| Copyright | 2002–2009 Daniel H. Luecking |
| Maintainer | Daniel H. Luecking Geoffrey Tobin |