[metapost] What is the best approach for writing LaTeX specific commands in metapost

[Rasmus Villemoes]

Vafa Khalighi <vafakhlgh at gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks alot taco. That fixed it.

I had a similar situation, where I had a lot of .mp files, which all
needed the same LaTeX preamble (and also some common metapost
configuration). The solution was rather simple: I created
mp-tex-preamble.tex, containing all the "\documentclass
.... \begin{document}", and "mp_common.mp" containing stuff such as
prologues := 3 and various vardefs.

All the "actual" files now start

verbatimtex
\input{mp-tex-preamble}
etex

input mp-common;

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