[metapost] Attn: Taco

[Nicola]

In article <4A71D20B.6070005 at broadinstitute.org>,
 Mia Champion <champion at broadinstitute.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not at all familiar with the metapost language and have an output 
> file from a program that I am using for genome analysis (see below).
> In order for the data to be linked into other output files from the 
> program, the metapost script below must be converted into individual pdf 
> files.
> I have tried a couple of different metapost converters online just to 
> see what the output would look like and keep getting errors that quit 
> the conversion and seem to
> have general trouble with the code.  I would really appreciate it if a 
> metapost expert could give me advice regarding this code and what might 
> be the best conversion
> program to use in order to generate pdf image files (the image outputs 
> are phylogenetic trees).
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> Mia

Try prefixing your code by:

verbatimtex 
%&latex 
\documentclass{article} 
\begin{document} 
etex 

Nicola