On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Stuart Hungerford wrote:

Hi,

I'm a ConTeXt and Metapost newbie, so apologies in advance if this is a stupid question.

I've successfully installed ConTeXt minimals on an OS/X 10.6.x system and it seems to be running okay.  I'd like to run some metapost examples from the command line and "mpost" also seems to be running well.

I've seen references to a "mptopdf" script and there is a Perl script of that name but it looks like it needs to be installed somewhere.  Is there some post-setup procedure I need to follow to access "mptopdf" or another one I've seen references to "fmtutil"?

Thanks,

Stu context mkiv of minimals uses mplib which is integrated in luatex, so it's the fastest way to produce a pdf : for example

%%save as %%test-0001.tex \starttext \startMPpage path p; p := fullcircle scaled 1 cm; draw p scaled 4 withpen pencircle xscaled 2mm yscaled 4mm rotated 30 ; \stopMPpage \stoptext $>context test-0001.tex With context mkii (again of minimals) is almost the same $>mtxrun texexec test-0001.tex but metapost is called with a system command , so it's more slow. (google metafun-s.pdf for more info about metafun) -- luigi