{"id":7,"date":"2005-02-19T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2005-02-19T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/7"},"modified":"2005-02-19T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2005-02-19T18:18:58","slug":"metapost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/7","title":{"rendered":"MetaPost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metapost (<a href=\"http:\/\/cm.bell-labs.com\/who\/hobby\/MetaPost.html\">main page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ursoswald.ch\/metapost\/tutorial.html\">nice tutorial<\/a>) is pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>In doing some homework for a class that&#8217;s heavy on mathematical notation, I had to get beyond the world of the word processor, so I decided to have another look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/\">TeX<\/a>. Good stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to embed vector images. Additionally, I was biased toward PDF output rather than PS. That all led me to MetaPost.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it&#8217;s been a pretty big learning curve, but I&#8217;m having fun with TeX, MetaPost, and the general world of freely-available typesetting software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metapost (main page, nice tutorial) is pretty cool. In doing some homework for a class that&#8217;s heavy on mathematical notation, I had to get beyond the world of the word processor, so I decided to have another look at TeX. Good stuff. I wanted to embed vector images. Additionally, I was biased toward PDF output [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}