On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Stuart Hungerford <stuart.hungerf...@anu.edu.au> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a ConTeXt and Metapost newbie, so apologies in advance if > this is a stupid question. > > I've successfully installed ConTeXt minimals on an OS/X 10.6.x > system and it seems to be running okay. I'd like to run some > metapost examples from the command line and "mpost" also seems > to be running well. > > I've seen references to a "mptopdf" script and there is a Perl > script of that name but it looks like it needs to be installed > somewhere. Is there some post-setup procedure I need to follow > to access "mptopdf" or another one I've seen references to > "fmtutil"? > > Thanks, > > Stu context mkiv of minimals uses mplib which is integrated in luatex, so it's the fastest way to produce a pdf : for example
%%save as %%test-0001.tex \starttext \startMPpage path p; p := fullcircle scaled 1 cm; draw p scaled 4 withpen pencircle xscaled 2mm yscaled 4mm rotated 30 ; \stopMPpage \stoptext $>context test-0001.tex With context mkii (again of minimals) is almost the same $>mtxrun texexec test-0001.tex but metapost is called with a system command , so it's more slow. (google metafun-s.pdf for more info about metafun) -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
