I am happy to announce a new release of MetaPost: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MetaPost 1.890 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a preliminary release in preparation for TeX Live 2014. It is main new feature is the promised ‘decimal’ number system that is now operational (but has not been tested extensively yet). Also, some of the open bugs have been fixed. A source archive can be downloaded from the files section at https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/metapost/ You can also do an anonymous subversion checkout: $ svn checkout --username anonsvn https://foundry.supelec.fr/svn/metapost/tags/1.890 The password is anonsvn I am no longer able to cross-compile for Win32, so Windows users will have to wait for Akira Kakuto and/or Mojca Miklavec’s binaries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in MetaPost version 1.890: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The numbersystem 'decimal' is now operational. * New internal: 'numberprecision', for use with 'the 'decimal' number system. The (numeric) value expresses the desired calculation precision, in decimal places. system default min max ============================ scaled 10 10 10 (assignment effectively ignored) double 16 16 16 (assignment effectively ignored) decimal 34 1 1000 * Bug fix: in the 'double' numbersystem, if X = scantokens decimal X: will now always be true, because the 'decimal' operator now has the same resolution as the scanning routine (which is two decimal places more than in the previous release). * Fixed a bug in the handling of the / operator (wrong precendence). * Fixed a bug in arctime (did not handle negative values currectly). * Fixed TFM generation issues (various scale-related errors). * Fixed application crashes when there was no TEXMF tree to be found anywhere. * It is no longer possible to assign to the 'numbersystem' internal. * There is a new definition of 'drawdot' in plain.mp. * PNG output did not output anything for draws of a single point. * Metapost now prints the full name of any preloaded files. * Fixed a bug in the handling of labels with embedded ascii zero(es). * Fixed handling of unknown command-line options, the reporting on used libraries in the --version output, and the banner line. Have fun! Taco Hoekwater, for the MetaPost team, March 11, 2014