In article <4C4D48C3.50803@elvenkind.com>,
Taco Hoekwater
Hi Nicola,
Thanks a lot for trying stuff!
On 07/26/2010 09:48 AM, Nicola wrote:
I get errors when trying to use a mem file different from plain.
And trying to typeset a MetaFont file with
mpost -mem=mfplain test.mf
produces the following error:
[snip]
This is not really a bug, more an incompatibility. In the new system, 'mem' files have to stop with 'dump', but the current mfplain.mp in the distrution doesn't do that yet (a similar problem is with plain.mp, but that is why we have mpost.mp).
If you add a 'dump;' at the end of mfplain.mp, this problem will go away.
Confirmed, that fixes the problem. One more problem I have with %& directives, as in this example: verbatimtex %&latex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} etex beginfig(1); label(btex x etex,cm*(1,1)); endfig; verbatimtex \end{document} \end etex end. It seems that '-tex latex' is mandatory in this case (%&latex is ignored). Is it by design? If so, I would like to point out that it may break code like the following: input TEX; TEXPRE("%&cont-en" & char(10) & "\starttext\setupbodyfont[8pt]"); TEXPOST("\stoptext"); verbatimtex %&latex \documentclass{minimal} \begin{document} etex beginfig(1); label(TEX("\type{This is} \ConTeXt"), (1cm,5mm)); draw btex \emph{And this is \LaTeX} etex; endfig; end. I know that this is borderline, but it compiles with mpost 1.2xx. Nicola