[metapost] Problem with showing paths

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The problem is the way the lines in the output of "show" are broken:
> The lines are fairly short (max. 80 characters, including the
> newline) and the x- and y-coordinates of the points can be broken
> across two lines, which makes parsing unnecessarily difficult.  [...]
> 
> Is there anyway to fix this?

Maybe you can send the output to the log file instead, using the
`max_print_line=<length>` environment variable?  We use this in
LilyPond.


     Werner