MetaPost on the Web

This page has a list of links related to MetaPost, a powerful tool for creating graphics in scalable PostScript. It was written by John Hobby, based on Metafont by Donald Knuth. Around 2007, it was separated into a frontend and backend library (MPlib, which was then linked into LuaTeX) by Taco Hoekwater, who also converted the source to CWEB.


Basics

MetaPost mailing lists

Manuals

The basic manuals were all originally written by John Hobby and published as AT&T technical reports. They continue to be updated and maintained as part of the MetaPost distribution. These links are for the documentation of the last released version.

Taco Hoekwater's white papers

Taco Hoekwater has written an excellent series of articles on the MetaPost languages, published in the ConTeXt Group Journal. They are best read in order:

Tutorials

Examples

Additional documentation

MetaPost programming and related projects

Macros and contributions (most on CTAN)

TUGboat articles

MAPS articles

More contributions are welcome; please email webmaster@tug.org.


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