David Arnold wrote:
I am open to any suggestions on how to most efficiently develop and include figures (in Metapost, of course) in our main document.
Well, if you do not depend on metafun -- context interaction, then I would just create a metapost input file per chapter, and compile it with mpost off-line (it they are complicated, even pre-run mptopdf to save time during the inclusion phase). Then include the image in the document just like I would a 'normal' external figure or even table). I have a separate per-chapter directory for that to avoid clutter. It is not most high-tech solution, but I find it quite workable. So, my tree structure usually looks like this: ./book.tex ./style.tex ./chapter1.tex % those are components ./chapter2.tex ... ./chapter1/figure.mp ./chapter1/figure.1 ./chapter1/figure.2 ./chapter1/whatever.png ./chapter1/table-1.tex Cheers, Taco