Re: [NTG-context] MetaPost 1.001 announcement

https://foudnry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/

(little typo) Sorry Taco, but it is a step on the way to MegaPost, or are they two separate project? Best -a-

The source package should compile normally on all systems that are capable of compiling a modern web2c-based TeX distribution.

The win32 package is intended for texlive or a similar web2c-based installation, and has been tested only with TeXLive 2007. These executables will *not* work for miktex, sorry.

Of course, we welcome any comments (either good or bad) that you may have. Simply replying to this message is fine, but see the bottom of the message for a more formal way to report bugs and feature requests.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in version 1.001: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

* The default cmyk 'black' color now uses only black, not all four ink colors (after a discussion on the mailing list).

* Some issues were reported with the new turningnumber algorithm, all known problems are now fixed.

* Gábor Braun discovered that mpost did not always download the font encodings into all the created output files.

* Akira Kakuto and Hartmut Henkel found some small issues in mpto regarding trailing and leading whitespace.

* A fix for the 'Helvetica' entries in trfonts.map was provided by Werner Lemberg, and Michail Vidiassov supplied two extra font entries for troff.map (Symbol and ZapfDingbats). Karl Berry provided the new file troff-updmap.map, to be used by the updmap tool in texlive.

* Mpost now supports web2c's --output-directory option.

* Any warnings about missing fonts and characters are now always written to the terminal as well as to the log.

* Now that makempx is a C program, it needed a different install line in build.sh. Also, Olaf Mersmann contributed a patch to recognize 'gmake' in build.sh

* Luigi Scarso found some typing errors in the web source that prevented clean weaving of the source.

* Stephan Hennig fixed a number of problems in the manual (mpman.tex) and the introduction paper (mpintro.tex). He also wrote new sections on how to preview metapost graphics and on how to use metapost graphics inside other documents. On top of that, the manual is now hypertext-aware, and fixes for a whole series of small problems have been applied.

---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legal notice / license / bug reports ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost is a system for producing graphics developed by John Hobby at AT&T, based on Donald Knuth's Metafont. The MetaPost home page is http://tug.org/metapost.

MetaPost and related programs are in the public domain.

The MetaPost development project is currently hosted at Supelec, https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost; please report bugs and request enhancements through there if possible. Alternatively, you can reach us through the mailing list as well.

Have fun!

Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, November 14, 2007

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