From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9191
Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context
Subject: Re: Greek characters in metapost
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:19:55 +0200
Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl
Message-ID: <20020912161955.78137e40.morawski@gmx.net>
References: <3D807744.8060207@wbmt.tudelft.nl>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399534 1232 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:58:54 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:58:54 +0000 (UTC)
Original-To: ConTeXt <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3D807744.8060207@wbmt.tudelft.nl>
Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9191
X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9191

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