[OS X TeX] metapost question

[Bruce Kellogg]

Jean-Claude

Please excuse an ignorant question. I do not understand
what is meant by "picture.mp"; the files that I process
all have the extension .tex .

Bruce Kellogg
rbmjk at alltel.net
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On Dec 14, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Jean-Claude DE SOZA wrote:

>
> Le 14 déc. 07 à 12:19, Bruce Kellogg a écrit :
>
>> Any suggestions on what to do would be appreciated.
>> I do all my processing using pdftex, and in the
>> TeXShop Preferences Misc pane there is checked mptopdf.
>> I do not really understand these options, should I check mpost?
>>
>> Bruce Kellogg
>
> Bruce,
> I use pdflatex.
> I run Metapost with mpost in TeXShop because it is easier for me to  
> manage errors in the MetaPost file with this engine.
> My preamble in the picture.mp is the following :
> verbatimtex
>    %&latex
>    \documentclass[]{article}
>    \usepackage{mathrsfs}
>    \begin{document}
>    etex;
>    beginfig(1)
>    .............
>    endfig;
>    end
> The mp file produces a file whose name is picture.1 that I include  
> in my LaTeX file where I don't forget to add this two lines in the  
> preamble :
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}
>
> Sometimes I run MetaPost directly in the LaTeX file using the emp  
> package. Here is some parts of my LaTeX file :
>
> %  ----- in the preamble for inserting MetaPost code ----%
> 	\usepackage{ifpdf}
> 	\usepackage[]{emp}
> 	\ifpdf
>   	\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}
> 	\fi
> %  ---- end Preamble ----%
>
> %----  Beginning of MetaPost Picture Source----%
> 	\begin{empfile}
> 	\begin{empdef}[fig1](8cm,8cm)
> 	% --- Metapost Code --- %
> 		beginfig(1)
> 		...........
> 		endfig;
> 		end;
> 	% --- End of MetaPost Code ---%
> 	\end{empdef}
> 	\end{empfile}
> %----  End of MetaPost Picture ----%
>
> %----  integration of the MetaPost Picture----%
> 	\immediate \write18{mpost -tex=latex \jobname}
> 	\begin{figure}[ht]
> 	\begin{center}
>  	 \empuse{fig1}
> 	\end{center}
> 	\end{figure}
> %----  end ----%
>
> Jean-Claude DE SOZA
>
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