On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Troy Henderson <thenders@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to output several MetaPost PDF graphics from a single
> ConTeXt source file.  For example,
>
> \startMPpage
>   draw fullcircle scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
>
> \startMPpage
>   draw unitsquare scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
>
> and have a separate output PDF generated for each MPpage?  It seems that
> this ConTeXt code generates a single PDF which contains only the first
> graphic.  I would like to have either
>
> 1) two separate PDF's with each containing their own graphic
> 2) a single two page PDF where each page corresponds to the appropriate
> graphic.
>
> Of course, the "holy grail" would be to be able to "compile" a MetaPost
> source file with ConTeXt.
>
>
for 2)

save this in test.mkiv

\starttext
\startMPpage
  draw fullcircle scaled 72;
\stopMPpage

\startMPpage
  draw unitsquare scaled 72;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext

$>context test.mkiv
-- 
luigi