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What is Metapost/Metafont and how can I get started using it?

Inspired by Why Metapost discrimination?, I'd like to come to know Metapost far better than I do now. All I really know is that Metapost is a language for describing graphics, and Metafont is used ...
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Why no GUI for Metafont? [closed]

Why has no-one ever created a graphical user interface for Metafont ? One can easily imagine a system that would allow interactive adjustment of the font parameters, with near-real-time display of ...
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Problems with mfplain

When I read the file mfplain into Metapost, I get about a dozen error messages complaining about redundant and inconsistent equations. It's hard to believe that there is really anything wrong with ...
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Code for reading Metafont definitions

I need some C code to generate Bezier curves from Metafont source code. Ideally, I'd like to have a C/C++ function with the following specifications: Input: an array of text strings (the lines in the ...
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feynmf with pdflatex [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to use kile with feynmf or feynmp? I would like to use feynmf, or better feynmp, with pdflatex. My first idea was to replace all the files file.[0-9]* which are ...