From: Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Greek characters in metapost
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:19:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020912161955.78137e40.morawski@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D807744.8060207@wbmt.tudelft.nl>
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:15:16 +0200
Ron van Ostayen <R.A.J.vanOstayen@WbMT.TUDelft.NL> wrote:
> For my PhD thesis I'm experimenting with MetaPost figures (or actually
> gnuplot pictures on the MP terminal).
> However, I've found that some characters, for example the greek
> characters, do not show in the generated postscript.
The PostScript file is not self-contained, i.e. no fonts
are included. Therefore the figure has to be embedded in
a ConTeXt document (\externalfigure).
> A minimal example (test.mp):
>
> beginfig(0);
> u = 1cm;
> draw (1u,0)..(0,1u)..(-1u,0)..(0,-1u)..cycle;
> label.top( btex $\alpha$ etex, (0,0));
> endfig;
>
> texexec --mptex test.mp
In order to pre-view your MP file you can use mptopdf.
texexec --mptex test.mp
mptopdf test
should give test-0.pdf. Here the \alpha should be visible.
Jens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-12 14:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-12 11:15 Ron van Ostayen
2002-09-12 14:19 ` Jens-Uwe Morawski [this message]
2002-09-12 20:27 ` Ron van Ostayen
2002-09-13 0:12 ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-09-13 7:32 ` Ron van Ostayen
2002-09-14 7:35 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-09-14 9:15 ` Greek characters in metapost (solution) Ron van Ostayen
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