[metapost] Embedded METAPOST source?

[Dan Luecking]

At 10:59 AM 5/16/2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>Am 16.05.10 18:52, schrieb Karel:
>>>Is it possible to include the .mp source directly in the .tex 
>>>file? And have it "just work"?
>>
>>It is possible when using luaTeX:-)
>
>You don't need LuaTeX, ConTeXt can use inline MetaPost graphics also with
>pdfTeX and XeTeX. For LaTeX there is AFAIK the mfpicture package with
>the same function.

I've never heard of mfpicture. If you mean mfpic, it allows direct
writing of mp source code (though literal backslashes and ~ require
special treatment), and will handle the naming and inclusion of
graphics, and it works in plain (pdf)tex, but that is not really its
main purpose.

A more direct approach is the emp package, which requires latex.


Dan


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Fayetteville, Arkansas
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html