Bug#295205: metapost figures in xdvi with tex text

[Stefan Ulrich <stefanulrich@users.sourceforge.net>]

Chris Walker <chrisw@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 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.

Thanks for the FAQ pointer! The upshot seems to be that due to
encoding problems etc., quote from the FAQ:

   the only solution is to view the 'original' metapost output after
   processing through LaTeX and dvips.


So it can't be done in xdvi either, and it seems we should go for
displaying bounding boxes instead - Paul?

Best,
Stefan