Re: [dev-context] MetaPost 1.502 (beta version)

27 Jul 2010

      In article <4C4EE613.1010505@elvenkind.com>,
 Taco Hoekwater  wrote:
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I am happy to announce a new beta release of MetaPost:
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MetaPost 1.502
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This indeed fixes several bugs, but I still experiment a couple related 
to interactions with TeX.

(1) If I omit outputtemplate some files crash, otherwise they compile. 
This is a minimal example:

% Typeset with mpost -tex='texexec --dvi'
%outputtemplate := "%j-%c.mps"; % Ok if this line is uncommented
verbatimtex
\setupbodyfont[12pt]
\starttext
etex
beginfig(1);
draw btex x etex;
endfig;
end.

(2) mpost also crashes when using the TEX macro:

% Typeset with mpost -tex='texexec --dvi'
input TEX;
TEXPRE("\starttext\setupbodyfont[8pt]"); % Comment this to avoid crash
draw TEX("abc");
end.

If you use latex instead, it always crashes regardless of TEXPRE.

Nicola