[NTG-context] Rendering Standalone MetaPost Graphics with ConTeXt
Vincent Hennebert
vhennebert at gmail.com
Thu May 19 10:23:45 CEST 2022
I’d like to use MetaPost to generate all sorts of standalone graphics
(ultimately converted to SVG). For various reasons (among others,
MetaFun and advanced text processing) I want to use MetaPost as
embedded in ConTeXt rather than a standalone installation.
---- metapost.mp ----
fill fullcircle scaled 10cm;
----
Whether I run
context metapost.mp
or
mtxrun --script metapost metapost.mp
I get a PDF document that contains no page.
The mtxrun version generates the following temp file:
---- mptopdf-temp.tex ----
\starttext
\startMPinclusions
fill fullcircle scaled 10cm;
\stopMPinclusions
\stoptext
----
Looking at the wiki, it seems that \startMPinclusions is not meant to
actually render any content, just to include MetaPost code like
function definitions. I guess I would have expected \startMPpage
instead.
Am I doing something wrong, or is that an error in ConTeXt?
Thanks,
Vincent
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