Re: Greek characters in metapost

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002 22:27:35 +0200
Ron van Ostayen <R.A.J.vanOstayen@WbMT.TUDelft.NL> wrote:

> Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> 
> This is true, however, I want to have a self-contained postscript file, 
> or rather, a postscript file I can include in a *LaTeX* document.  (I 
> know this is the ConTeXt-list but I expected to find a lot of MetaPost 
> experts on this list. :-))

If you embed the MP-output test.0 in your LaTeX document using
\includegraphics of the graphicx package, then the output
should show the \alpha. Depending, whether you are using pdflatex
or latex, pdflatex itself or dvips include the appropriate fonts
and encodings.

Try the following LaTeX file with pdflatex. It should show the \alpha.

%---snip---(mp-include.tex)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}

\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}

\begin{document}
\includegraphics{test.0}
\end{document}
%---snap----

If you really need a self-contained EPS stand-alone then the
best way is to use mptopdf and convert the resulting PDF back
to EPS using GhostScript.

 Jens