How to view output .mp files from Functional MetaPost
- by Jared Updike
I'm interested in using Functional MetaPost on Mac OS X:
http://cryp.to/funcmp/
I'm looking for a tutorial like:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_5_steps
but for a trivial FuncMP example, i.e. using GHC, I can compile something simple such as:
import FMP
myPicture = text "blah"
main = generate "foo" 1 myPicture
but I can't figure out how to view this foo.1.mp output. (It gives a runtime error about not finding 'virmp'; my MetaPost binary is 'mpost'; I can't figure out how to override this Parameter or what my .FunMP file is or should be doing...) I can run mpost on that but the output (foo.1.1) is what, PostScript? EPS? How do I use this? (I imagine I just need a simple LaTeX file with an EPS figure in it or something...)
Preferably, I'd like to generate output (.ps or .pdf that I can view) so I an actually get somewhere with Functional MetaPost, learning it, playing with it, not banging my head against paths and binaries and shell commands.
