(Last updated 2011/03/19)

Latest versions of mfpic

There is a new version, 1.06. If you wish to get it here, download mfpic.tds.zip (1406K), and unzip it into the appropriate texmf directory in any TDS-compliant texmf tree. Or get mfpic106.zip (1330K), unzip it into a temporary directory, and then run tex or latex on mfpic.ins. Follow instructions in install.txt

Barring any reports of problems, this is the full distribution of what will be mfpic, version 1.06. The changes from 1.03:

• Commands \mfresolution and \mfmode now should work (1.04).
• Minor documentation changes and minor internal code changes (1.05).
• Commands \DEgraph and \DEtrajectory for plotting solutions of differential equations (1.06).

The changes from 1.00 to 1.03:

• fixed a bug in grafbase in the command plrvectorfield where two plus signs should have been minuses (1.01).
• Work-around added for problems with MetaPost's handling of verbatimtex material (1.02).
• Corrupted pdf files were replaced (1.03).
• Broken color handling for older MetaPost (version 0.642 or less) was fixed.
• Flawed detection of amstex format was improved

The main chainges in 1.00 over 0.9 are:

• Try to permit macros in the filename in \opengraphsfile, but still permit other TeX special characters.
• Added \cbeziers, the cubic equivalent of \qbeziers, plus \closedcbeziers.
• Make arguments of \mfpic environment available as macros: \xfactor, \yfactor, \xmin, \xmax, \ymin and \ymax.
• Bug fix for name clash with pdfpages (reported by Franck Pastor).
• Made \mfpverbtex cumulative when issued prior to \opengraphsfile.
• Another random path: \brownianmotion.
• Correct some color conversion formulas.
• Some internal code rewritten; some messages rewritten.
• For metapost option: in plain TeX, try first to input epsf.tex and then epsf.sty; in plain pdftex try first supp-pdf.mkii and then supp-pdf.tex.
• Documentation updated. Some previously undocumented features now included.
• We support the new MetaPost color models. That is, when you say \fillcolor{cmyk(0,0,1,0)}, the PostScript output will actually invoke "0 0 1 0 setcmykcolor". This will not always make a difference in the visual appearence. It seems not to make a difference in my GSview program, but it does in Adobe Reader.
• We supply an interface to MetaPost's new outputtemplate for naming the output files. For MetaPost versions 1.x, if you put the following in your .tex file:

      \setfilenametemplate{my\_-\#.mps}
      \opengraphsfile{figs}
  

  then MetaPost will name your files "myfigs-1.mps", "myfigs-2.mps", etc. The placeholder \_ will be replaced with the MetaPost jobname (the argument of \opengraphsfile) and the placeholder \# will be replaced with the figure number. The figure placement macros adjust accordingly. If your MetaPost is too old, then it will not rename the files while TeX will look for the new names. Therefore, do not use this unless your MetaPost is recent (minimal version is beta .900).

Previous versions: Aside from PDF files, all the files in these archives should be plain ASCII files with Unix-style line endings, except for version 0.5.01 and earlier where all files have DOS-style line endings. Conversion of ASCII files may be necessary on some OSs in either case. mfpic07a.zip contains two PDF files, which accounts for most of the increase in size from previous versions, and 0.8b+ have 3 PDFs.

• Mfpic version 1.05 1317K. Prior version. Essentially version 1.00 with accumulated bug fixes.
• Mfpic version 0.9 1143K.
• Mfpic version 0.8b beta 1060K.
• MFpic version 0.7a beta 731K.
• Peter Wilson's docmfp.sty, needed if you wish to obtain the printed documentation of the grafbase.dtx macros in version 0.7a or later.
• MFpic version 0.6c beta, 237K.
• MFpic version 0.5.01b beta, 219K.
• MFpic version 0.4.05 beta, 176K.
• grafbase.mp only, might be all you need to be able to run mpost on .mf files created with versions 0.2.1x.x of mfpic. It contains the version from mfpic 0.6c.
• Other packages:
  • Mathdots corrects some of TeX/LaTeX/AmSTeX's dot commands and provides a diagonal (\iddots) opposite to \ddots.
  • Mpsproof is to be used like mproof.tex, but should work with either ordinary tex or pdftex.
  • Splines provides MetaPost (or Metafont) macros for creating relaxed or closed cubic splines connecting a list of points. Also, for graphing a function from a list of pairs, using spline equations to interpolate between the points.
  • stmary.tex provides the stmaryrd symbols for plain TeX.

The manual for version 0.6 may be read or downloaded (hyperlinked PDF with index of commands): mfpicdoc.pdf. The manual for later versions is included in the release.