[metapost] MetaPost Sandbox -- MP test/display program using Qt

[Shriramana Sharma]

Hello list.

So after my previous program ("firstlight") which was "dumb" and only
"show"-ed a QSvgWidget for hardcoded MetaPost commands, I have tried
to go to the next level and allow the user to enter MP commands after
which the GUI will (try to) display the resultant figures.

I have attached the sources for v1 of my MetaPost Sandbox. I
personally have linked it against the MP sharedlib which I built using
the instructions posted earlier, however the make will also link
against libmplib.a if that file is inserted into the source folder
(for which I have included the magic word "-L ." in the Makefile).

I have also been able to eschew the need for plain.mp to be present in
the CWD by including the MP commands contained therein into a macro
defined by a header file. I also automated the conversion from MP
format to C header so that it may be re-used. That is also attached.

I am intermittently working on a v2 with an improved SVG display
widget with zoom, rulers and grids.

However, even now I am facing some problems. I have some samples of
perfectly valid MP code (see attached .mp file) which are not
processed properly by MPLib for whatever reason. My installed MP 1.504
(it's from TexLive 2012 I think) and Troy Henderson's online tool both
convert quite such samples to SVG/PostScript (try the attachment).

I do not understand why this should be so. I am sure it is not due to
my mp-format-to-c-header hack because even if I remove the hack and
tell MPLib to mp_execute ( _mp_instance, "input plain;\n", 14 ), the
problem persists. I wonder if anyone can help me with that.

Thanks!

-- 
Shriramana Sharma
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