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MetaPost: Creating technical illustrations
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  MetaPost is a picture-drawing language similar to Metafont (Note:
Metafont), but instead of outputting bitmaps in a "font", it outputs
PostScript commands.  It's primarily intended for creating technical
illustrations.

  MetaPost also provides for arbitrary integration of text and graphics
in a natural way, using any typesetter (TeX and Troff are both
supported) and a number of other subsidiary programs, described below.

mpost invocation

Invoking MetaPost.

inimpost invocation

Initial MetaPost.

virmpost invocation

Virgin MetaPost.

makempx invocation

Create MPX files for labels.

dvitomp invocation

DVI-to-MPX translation.

dmp invocation

Ditroff-to-MPX translation.

mpto invocation

Extracting labels from MetaPost programs.

newer invocation

Is one file newer than another?