Bug#295205: metapost figures in xdvi with tex text
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Stefan Ulrich <stefanulrich@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> > There doesn't seem to be an easy way for Xdvi to detect that it's not
> > a standalone PS file. (Paul, you know more about Postscript than I do
> > - is the problem that the PS file doesn't define any fonts? Is this
> > the way Metapost works? Does it work with dvips since the font will be
> > already present in the `main' file?)
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=mpprologues implies
that this is the case.
> >
> > If there's no way for xdvi to detect/fix this font problem, maybe we
> > should switch to displaying a placeholder/bounding box for Metapost
> > files - I don't know much about Metapost either; can we assume that
> > files missing an `.(e)ps' extension are Metapost, or would we need
> > to scan all files in 'PSfile' specials for a `%%Creator: MetaPost'
> > comment?
>
> Shouldn't LaTeX indicate properly what it included?
I don't guarantee that my example uses the correct way of including
the metapost LaTeX - but if I've got it wrong, it wasn't obvious
from the faq answers I've read -and it seemed to work in dvips.
Chris
PS Not directly relevant to the bug, but the molecular structures
example at
http://matagalatlante.org/nobre/featpost/doc/featexamples.html is the
reason I'm using metapost.
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