Friday, September 26, 2003

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MetaPost MetaPost, again gaining ground

are appearing more and more pages devoted to this interesting graphics programming language, but are difficult to find, because their authors do not advertise or put the documents on CTAN. This time it's the turn of the MetaPost: A very brief tutorial Urs Oswald. So hidden that not even link from your homepage . This "tutorial" is actually a collection of figures, increasingly complex, with their source and brief explanations. Not for beginners. In addition to the tutorial in the web of Urs Oswald is also an interesting
  • document that explains the order in which different operators are evaluated metapost, which helps to understand some unexpected results. In the same vein of 'tutorial' of Urs, is a huge website with over 300 examples metapost, each side of your code (beware, the page is graphically intensive). Thanks to Gustavo for this link.
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