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MetaPost is a picture-drawing language developed by John Hobby, derived
from Knuth's METAFONT. Its primary purpose is to output Encapsulated PostScript
instead of bitmaps.
MetaPost input files and the support files for MetaPost-related utilities
shall be stored in:
texmf/metapost/package/
`package' is the name of a MetaPost package. At the present
writing none exist, but the TWG thought it prudent to leave room
for contributed packages that might be written in the future.
The TDS reserves the following `package' names:
- `base',
for the standard MetaPost macro files, such as
`plain.mp', `mfplain.mp', `boxes.mp', and
`graph.mp'. This includes files used by INIMP when dumping mem
files containing preloaded macro definitions.
- `local',
for local additions. See Section section Local additions.
- `misc',
for MetaPost packages consisting of only a single file.
- `support',
for additional input files required by MetaPost
utility programs, including a font map, a character adjustment table,
and a subdirectory containing low-level MetaPost programs for rendering
some special characters.
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