MLPOST(1)						      General Commands Manual							 MLPOST(1)

NAME

       mlpost - wrapper around OCaml and Metapost for the Mlpost library

SYNOPSIS

       mlpost [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       mlpost is a program that compiles OCaml files to PostScript or PDF files using the Mlpost library.

OPTIONS

       -pdf   Generate .mps files (default)

       -mp    Generate .mp files

       -png   Generate .png files

       -ps    Generate .1 files

       -latex <main.tex>
	      Scan the LaTeX prelude

       -eps   Generate encapsulated postscript files

       -xpdf  WYSIWYG mode using xpdf remote server (the name of the remote server is "mlpost")

       -v     Be a bit more verbose. Otherwise nothing is printed except in case of error.

       -ocamlbuild
	      Use ocamlbuild to compile

       -native
	      Compile to native code

       -ccopt <options>
	      Pass <options> to the Ocaml compiler

       -execopt <options>
	      Pass <options> to the compiled program

       -version
	      Print Mlpost version and exit

       -no-magic
	      Do not parse mlpost options, do not call Metapost.dump

       -depend
	      output dependency lines in a format suitable for the make(1) utility

       -contrib <contrib-name>
	      compile with the specified contrib

       -dumpable
	      output one name of dumpable file by line. So it print all the figures which will be created by the .ml file.

       -get-include-compile {cmxa|cma|dir|file}
	      output the libraries which are needed by the library Mlpost if you want not to use the mlpost tool :

		      - cmxa print the needed cmxa file (opt version)
		      - cma print the needed cma file (byte version)
		      - dir print the directories needed to be include
		      - file print the file name inside this directory without extension

       -compile-name <compile-name>
	      Keep the compiled version of the .ml file and name it <compile-name>.

       -dont-execute
	      Don't execute the mlfile. So mlpost generates no figures. With this option you can check that a file compile without wasting time to
	      generate the figures. The options -dont-execute and -compile-name can be used in conjunction to create  a  program  which  generates
	      some figures according to some command line options.

       -dont-clean
	      Don't remove intermediates files. The metapost backend use some intermediates files which are removed without this option.

       -cairo Use the cairo backend instead of metapost

       -t1disasm
	      Set the program used to decrypt PostScript Type 1 font, only with cairo (default built-in one). This option will disappear soon.

       -help, --help
	      Display the list of options

SEE ALSO

       mpost(1), ocamlc(1), xpdf(1).

AUTHOR

       Mlpost was written by Romain Bardou, Francois Bobot, Johannes Kanig, Stephane Lescuyer and Jean-Christophe Filliatre.

       This  manual  page was written by Stephane Glondu <steph@glondu.net> and completed by the Mlpost authors for the Debian project (but may be
       used by others).

								    August 2009 							 MLPOST(1)