show text in meta post

I've found no way to show text (even not Chinese characters) in metapost using ghostview directly. namely: %mpost name.mp %kghostview name.1 will not show any texts. It makes me crazy. finally I found a way: 1. include name.1 in a latex file. say, name.tex 2. %latex name.tex # produce name.dvi 3. %dvi2ps name.dvi # produce first.ps In this (ugly) way, I can see what I've typed in: "I am so moving, o o o...".