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3.4 MetaPost
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MetaPost is a picture-drawing language developed by John Hobby, derived
from Knuth's Metafont. Its primary purpose is to output Encapsulated
PostScript instead of bitmaps.

   MetaPost input files and the support files for MetaPost-related
utilities shall be stored in:

     texmf/metapost/PACKAGE/

   `PACKAGE' is the name of a MetaPost package.  At the present writing
none exist, but the TWG thought it prudent to leave room for
contributed packages that might be written in the future.

   The TDS reserves the following `PACKAGE' names:

   * `base', for the standard MetaPost macro files, such as `plain.mp',
     `mfplain.mp', `boxes.mp', and `graph.mp'.  This includes files
     used by INIMP when dumping mem files containing preloaded macro
     definitions.

   * `local', for local additions. See Section Note: Local additions.

   * `misc', for MetaPost packages consisting of only a single file.
     An administrator or package maintainer may create directories for
     single-file packages at their discretion, instead of using `misc'.

   * `support', for additional input files required by MetaPost utility
     programs, including a font map, a character adjustment table, and
     a subdirectory containing low-level MetaPost programs for rendering
     some special characters.