djireland / metapost-examples

Some example documents and drawings, showing off what you can do with metapost and mplib

metapost-examples

Some example documents and drawings, showing off what you can do with Metapost and luamplib.

PWW-1 and PWW-2

These two documents are attempts to re-draw some of the drawings from Roger Nelsen's "Proofs without words" books. The intent is to provide a tutorial to drawing with plain Metapost, as well as to show what can be done with mplib and lualatex. The source of each PDF files is a single tex file with each drawing as a separate mplib environment. The files use a few external Metapost files, that include:

• arrow_label.mp -- draws a double arrow with a label in the middle
• isometric-projection.mp -- for simple 3D
• mark_equal.mp -- draws equal-line pecks
• markle.mp -- draws angle marks
• paintball.mp -- draws slightly-solid balls
• thatch.mp -- a simple hatching routine

You will also need the metapost-colorbrewer package installed, and the TeX Gyre Pagella and TeX Gyre Pagella Math fonts installed and available to fontspec.

The documents are strictly for educational and tutorial purposes only. All the original books and therefore all the pictures are copyrighted by the Mathematical Association of America. My Metapost source files are covered by the GNU Public License V3. This means you can use them for any non-commercial purpose.

Tutorial Examples

For this one, I have chosen examples from various sources, that may be familiar from elsewhere in the world of \TeX.

Contact / questions

If you have questions about Metapost or any of my examples, please consider asking them on a Q&A site like http://tex.stackexchange.com/ using the metapost tag.