New on CTAN: mp-gears
Date: May 2, 2026 4:24:50 AM CEST
Maxime Chupin submitted the
mp-gears
package.
Version: 0.1 2026-04-28
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Draw systems of intermeshing gears with MetaPost
Announcement text:
This package helps to draw systems of intermeshing gears with METAPOST. This package allows users to model various gears/rack and gear/rack systems (and even spirographs). Because with METAPOST, we do not need to declare numeric variable, with mp-gears, we define parameters (in table) associated to un numeric identifier and then we manipulate the gear object with this numeric identifier. This package is in beta version—do not hesitate to report bugs, as well as requests for improvement
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mp-gears More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/mp-gears
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
This package helps to draw systems of intermeshing gears with METAPOST. This package allows users to model various gears/rack and gear/rack systems (and even spirographs). Because with METAPOST, we do not need to declare numeric variable, with mp-gears, we define parameters (in table) associated to un numeric identifier and then we manipulate the gear object with this numeric identifier. This package is in beta version—do not hesitate to report bugs, as well as requests for improvement
This package is located at https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/metapost/contrib/macros/mp-gears More information is at https://ctan.org/pkg/mp-gears
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Manfred Lotz CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs .
mp-gears – Draw systems of intermeshing gears with METAPOST
This package helps to draw systems of intermeshing gears with METAPOST. This package allows users to model various gears/rack and gear/rack systems (and even spirographs).
| Package | mp-gears |
| Version | 0.1 2026-04-28 |
| Maintainer | Maxime Chupin |