METAPOST

METAPOST is a picture-drawing language developed by John Hobby that is very much like Knuth's METAFONT, except that it outputs PostScript instead of bitmaps.

The TDS specifies that the METAPOST input files and the support files for METAPOST-related utilities shall be stored in:

texmf/metapost/package/

package is the name of a group of related METAPOST files. At the moment there aren't any besides those in the standard distribution, but the TWG thought it wise to leave room for contributed packages that might be written in the future.

The following package names are reserved: