MetaPost is a picture-drawing language similar to Metafont (see section Metafont: Creating typeface families), but instead of outputting bitmaps in a "font", it outputs PostScript commands. It's primarily intended for creating technical illustrations.
MetaPost also provides for arbitrary integration of text and graphics in a natural way, using any typesetter (TeX and Troff are both supported) and a number of other subsidiary programs, described below.
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