mtx-metapost(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ mtx-metapost — the MetaPost to PDF glow-up 💅

okay bestie, so this is mtx-metapost, a MetaPost to PDF processor — and it lives in the mtx-metapost(1) manual page in the ConTeXt-verse. it takes your MetaPost stuff and turns it into PDF, and honestly? iconic. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

mtx-metapost — MetaPost to PDF processor. that's the whole vibe. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

mtxrun --script metapost [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

so you literally just call it through mtxrun with --script metapost, and then you can sprinkle in OPTIONS and FILENAMES as you please. main character energy tbh ✨

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

MetaPost to PDF processor. that's it, that's the description — short, sweet, and lowkey serving exactly what it says on the tin 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the whole menu, bestie, and yes we're going through every single one:

  • --rawmp — does a raw metapost run. the unfiltered, straight-up version 🔥
  • --metafun — use metafun instead of plain. like, upgrade your whole aesthetic basically 💜
  • --latex — forces --tex=latex. got it? forced. no negotiating 😤
  • --texexec — forces texexec usage (that's mkii, iykyk). old school but it still ate 🍓
  • --split — splits a single result file into pages. one big file? not anymore, we're slicing it up ✂️✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

okay so more info about ConTeXt and all the tools that come with it can be found at these spots — go be nosy, it's encouraged 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie 💀💖 this was version 0.10, dated 01-01-2026 — so yeah, freshly stamped, go forth and process those MetaPost files, you absolute legend 🌈⭐🦋

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