---
name: "jmpost"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "jmpost"
version: "3.1.11+0.04b-0.1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/jmpost"
---

# jmpost(1)

a patched version of MetaPost which supports Japanese

## NAME

jMetaPost - a patched version of MetaPost which supports Japanese

## SYNOPSIS

**jmpost** \[*OPTION*\]... \[*MPNAME*\[*.mp*\]\] \[*COMMANDS*\]\
 **jmpost** \[*OPTION*\]... *FIRST-LINE*\
 **jmpost** \[*OPTION*\]... *&MEM ARGS*

## DESCRIPTION

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  Run jMetaPost on MPNAME, usually creating MPNAME.NNN (and perhaps MPNAME.tfm), where NNN are the character numbers generated. Any remaining COMMANDS are processed as jMetaPost input, after MPNAME is read. If the first line of MPNAME is %&MEM, and MEM is an existing .mem file, use it. Else use \`NAME.mem', where NAME is the program invocation name, most commonly \`jmpost'.

-

  Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a backslash, interpret all non-option arguments as a line of jMetaPost input.

-

  Alternatively, if the first non-option argument begins with a &, the next word is taken as the MEM to read, overriding all else.  Any remaining arguments are processed as above.

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  If no arguments or options are specified, prompt for input.

**-file-line-error-style**   print file:line:error style messages **-ini**                     be inijmpost, for dumping mems; this is implicitly

-

  true if the program name is \`inijmpost'

**-interaction**=*STRING*      set interaction mode (STRING=batchmode/nonstopmode/

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  scrollmode/errorstopmode)

**-jobname**=*STRING*          set the job name to STRING **-kanji**=*STRING*            set Japanese encoding (STRING=euc\|jis\|sjis) **-kpathsea-debug**=*NUMBER*   set path searching debugging flags according to

-

  the bits of NUMBER

**-mem**=*MEMNAME*             use MEMNAME instead of program name or a %& line **-output-directory**=*DIR*    use DIR as the directory to write files to **-progname**=*STRING*         set program (and mem) name to STRING **-parse-first-line**        parse of the first line of the input file **-recorder**                enable filename recorder **-tex**=*TEXPROGRAM*          use TEXPROGRAM for text labels. **-translate-file**=*TCXNAME*  use the TCX file TCXNAME **-T**, **-troff**               set the prologues variable, use \`makempx **-troff**' **-help**                    display this help and exit **-version**                 output version information and exit

## REPORTING BUGS

Email bug reports to hideyuki@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

kpathsea version 3.5.6 Copyright (C) 1997-2004 AT&T Bell Laboratories. Kpathsea is copyright (C) 1999-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty.  You may redistribute this software under the terms of the pTeX copyright.  For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING of pTeX.

Note: jMetaPost is built using Web2C, and Web2C is licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.  For more information, see the file named COPYING of Web2C.

## SEE ALSO

The full documentation for **jMetaPost** is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the **info** and **jMetaPost** programs are properly installed at your site, the command

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  **info jMetaPost**

should give you access to the complete manual.