Bug#295205: metapost figures in xdvi with tex text

[Paul Vojta <vojta@Math.Berkeley.EDU>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Frank Küster 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?)
> >
> > 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?

metapost files are not .eps, although they're very close.  They require
special processing, which I haven't implemented yet.  I should check what
dvips does, and mimic that.

> Shouldn't LaTeX indicate properly what it included?

It doesn't know.

--Paul Vojta, vojta@math.berkeley.edu