MPOST(1) General Commands Manual MPOST(1) (NAME) mpost, pmpost, upmpost - r-mpost, r-pmpost, r-upmpost - (SYNOPSIS) mpost [options] [commands] mpost --dvitomp dvifile[.dvi] [mpxfile[.mpx]] (DESCRIPTION) MetaPost MetaPost PostScript (EPS) (SVG) . MetaPost Metafont tex(1) troff(1) PostScript Metafont . MetaPost . mpost mpost.mp plain.mp . --ini . ( commands) MetaPost . ( MetaPost .) mpost figs figs.mp . figs << >> ("jobname") . mpout . .mp . --dvitomp MetaPost DVI MPX . dvitomp(1) . pmpost upmpost ptex uptex. 'r-' r-mpost r-pmpost r-upmpost --restricted MetaPost tex makempx . . --help . MetaPost https://tug.org/metapost . MetaPost Metafont Metafont . MetaPost (bitmap) Metafont . (FILES) plain.mp . mfplain.mp Metafont. $TEXMFMAIN/metapost/base/*.mp MetaPost . $TEXMFMAIN/metapost/support/* tex troff . $TEXMFMAIN/metapost/support/trfonts.map troff PostScript. psfonts.map tex PostScript. $TEXMFMAIN/doc/metapost/* MetaPost . (SUGGESTED READING) . (Donald E. Knuth) The Metafontbook ( C Computers & Typesetting). TUGboat ( TeX Users Group). (SEE ALSO) dvitomp(1), epstopdf(1), mf(1), mptopdf(1), tex(1), MetaPost . (AUTHORS) MetaPost John D. Hobby Metafont (Donald E. Knuth) . Ulrik Vieth MetaPost Web2C MetaPost TeX . MetaPost (Taco Hoekwater) Hans Hagen . Luigi Scarso . (BUGS) MetaPost https://tug.org/metapost . Web2C 2026 31 December 2018 MPOST(1)