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How can I install the metafun metapost macros?

I have tried to tlmgr install metafun, but it cannot find it. Also a search for “metafun” on ctan yields only a introductory tutorial on ConTeXt, in Chinese.

I remember I’ve had it installed previously, so I did a search for it on my OSX: find /usr/local/texlive -name metafun\*, which listed the file metafun.mem from an earlier TLBasic2010 directory hierachy under texmf-var/web2c/metapost/metafun.mem. (I am now using TL2012Basic)

I thought I could just copy it to my local texmf tree under ~/Library/texmf/metapost, but

mpost --mem=metafun.mem file.mp

says it cannot find it.

So I would like to ask a) where can I find it on the internet, and b) where do I put the file so that metapost can find it?

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Metapost in TeX Live 2012 doesn't read .mem files any more. Metafun is part of ConTeXt, so you need tlmgr install context; you call metafun with mpost --mem=metafun (no .mem extension required). – egreg Jan 15 at 14:20
Thanks @egreg! Now I don't get any error about mpost not finding the metafun. Do you know if I need to still do something, because when I run the command as you showed, I don't see metapost loading the file (only: Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004). Also I get an error when trying to call, what I presume, a metafun function drawpoints. – morbusg Jan 15 at 16:24
I've added an answer showing that the necessary file are indeed read in; about drawpoints I really don't know: it is defined in mp-tool.mpii, but the details about it are surely in the documentation that you should be able to find at the Pragma-ADE site: pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf – egreg Jan 15 at 16:48

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The metafun macros for Metapost are part of ConTeXt, so you need

tlmgr install context

For calling metafun from the command line, you can say

mpost --mem=metafun <filename>

although mpost doesn't load any more .mem files but instead inputs the corresponding files that would have been used for building the format, in this case metafun.mp. Indeed, if I try on a test file

mpost --mem=metafun test

I get in the log file

This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.1.0)  15 JAN 2013 17:43
**test
(metafun.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/metafun.mpii
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-base.mpii
Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-tool.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-spec.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-core.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-page.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-text.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-txts.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-shap.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-butt.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-char.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-step.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-grph.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-figs.mpii)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-grid.mpii
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-form.mpii
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/base/string.mp)
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/base/marith.mp
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/base/string.mp))))
(/usr/local/texlive/2012/texmf-dist/metapost/context/base/mp-func.mpii))

and this shows that the right files are loaded.

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Thanks! Now I can see also those files being included when I run mpost. I’m not sure why it didn’t work earlier (maybe because of a same named tex-file along with using mptopdf), but now all is good. :-) – morbusg Jan 15 at 17:19

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