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Hi Taco,
Running mplib is easy enough to document, but that is only a part of the work: you also have to convert the image to pdf literals, and that is more work than I would like to put in the manual.
OK. It could be nice then to simply state this?
Anyway, attached is a bunch of definitions I stripped out of context that will allow you to run mplib in plain tex provided that you also have context installed (you need mlib-pdf.lua for the PDF conversion)
Thanks a lot for these. With these hints I am now able to compile metapost figs from conTeXt through "texexec --luatex" normaly. To this end, I had to perform two tweaks: * the files mlib-run.lua, mlib-ctx.lua, and mlib-pdf.lua were *NEVER* loaded so I added to my conTeXt source file: \directlua0 { dofile ("/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mlib-ctx.lua") } \directlua0 { dofile ("/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mlib-run.lua") } \directlua0 { dofile ("/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/mlib-pdf.lua") } * the format was generated correctly but loaded incorrectly: I had to add the following line: ini_version = false, in the metapost.load function in the mlib-run.lua file. Now everything is OK. The second thing (an misfortunate typo) is easy to fix. However, the fact that mlib-*.lua are never loaded is more worrying: any idea where this error comes from? Hope this will help Hans as well. Cheers, Olivier