Re: Passing command line arguments to MetaPost programs?

Hi
Try something like:
	mpost '\prologues :=1; input file.mp'
	
I picked the line up from another maillist (lyx-users) but have not
tried it myself. (But I'd be surprised if it doesn't work.)
/johan

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Roland Smiderkal wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I want to pass command line arguments to metapost programs (not to
> metapost itself). For instance I'd like to set the prologues variable
> from the command line. Is there a way to achieve this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roland Smiderkal
> 
> 

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