[metapost] Problem with defaultscale

[Oliver Buerschaper]

>> Now what about this: I've just realized that mptopdf actually runs  
>> a ConTeXt background process that appears to have its default font  
>> size set to 12pt. Incidently, my TeX labels come out at exactly  
>> 12pt … since I'm almost always going to use mptopdf as a compiler  
>> anyway could I perhaps make it run the ConTeXt process at 10pt font  
>> size?
>
> verbatimtex
> \setupbodyfont[10pt]
> etex

Wicked! That kills three birds with (almost) a single line … now I can  
also save myself typing all the scaling factors after "etex" …

Thanks,
Oliver