mfpic-doc.pdf.

5 Appendices
5.1 Acknowledgements.
Tom would like to thank all of the people at Dartmouth as well as out in the network world for
testing MFPIC and sending him back comments. He would particularly like to thank:
Geoffrey Tobin for his many suggestions, especially about cleaning up the METAFONT code,
enforcing dimensions, fixing the dotted line computations, and speeding up the shading routines
(through this process, Geoffrey and Tom managed to teach each other many of the subtleties of
METAFONT), and for keeping track of MFPIC for nearly a year while Tom finished his thesis;
Bryan Green for his many suggestions, some of which (including his rewriting the \tcaption
macro) ultimately led to the current version’s ability to put graphs in-line or side-by-side; and
Uwe Bonnes and Jaromír Kuben, who worked out rewrites of MFPIC during Tom’s working
hiatus and who each contributed several valuable ideas.
Some credit also belongs to Anthony Stark, whose work on a FIG to METAFONT converter has
had a serious impact on the development of many of MFPIC’s capabilities.
Finally, Tom would like to thank Alan Vlach, the other TEXnician at Berry College, for helping
him decide on the format of many of the macros, and for helping with testing.
Dan Luecking would like to echo Tom’s thanks to all of the above, especially Geoffrey Tobin
and Jaromír Kuben. And to add the names Taco Hoekwater, for comments, advice and suggestions,
Werner Lemberg, for the \assignmfvalue command, and Zaimi Sami Alex for suggestions.
But mostly, he’d like to thank Tom Leathrum for starting it all.
5.2 Changes History.
See the file changes.txt for a somewhat sporadic history of changes to MFPIC. See the file README
for changes added since the previous version, and for any known problems.
5.3 Summary of Options.
Unless otherwise stated, any of the command forms will be local to the current mfpic environment
if used inside. Otherwise it will affect all later environments.
OPTION: COMMAND FORM(S): RESTRICTIONS:
metapost \usemetapost Command must come before \opengraphsfile.
Incompatible with metafont option.
metafont \usemetafont The default. Command must come before
\opengraphsfile. Incompatible with metapost
option.
mplabels
overlaylabels
truebbox
clip
\usemplabels,
\nomplabels
\overlaylabels,
\nooverlaylabels
\usetruebbox,
\notruebbox
\clipmfpic,
\noclipmfpic
Requires metapost. If command is used inside an
mfpic environment, it should come before
\tlabel commands to be affected.
Has no effect without metapost.
Has no effect without metapost.
No restrictions.
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