Hi, I think I have never encountered this problem. Recently, I can no longer have a succession of figures with Metapost; only the first one appears. Thanks. Fabrice \starttext \dorecurse{3}{\startMPcode numeric u; u = 0.5cm; ymax = xmax = 7; xmin = ymin = -1; interim ahangle := 30; z0 = (1u,1u); z1 = (2u,3u); z2 = (0,5u); path xx, yy; xx = ((xmin,0) -- (xmax,0)) scaled u; yy = ((0,ymin) -- (0,ymax)) scaled u; drawoptions(scaled .5 withcolor .7 white); for i = ceiling ymin upto floor ymax: draw xx shifted (0,i*u); endfor for i = ceiling xmin upto floor xmax: draw yy shifted (i*u,0); endfor drawoptions(); path fuzz; fuzz = z0 -- z1 -- z2 -- cycle; fill fuzz withcolor 0.7[blue,white]; draw fuzz withcolor blue; fill fuzz shifted(4u,1u) withcolor 0.7[blue,white]; draw fuzz shifted(4u,1u) withcolor blue; drawoptions(withpen pencircle scaled 1pt); drawarrow z0 -- z0 shifted (4u,1u); drawarrow z1 -- z1 shifted (4u,1u); drawarrow z2 -- z2 shifted (4u,1u); drawoptions(); label("\im{\vec{v}}", (3.5u,3u)); label.llft("\im{A}",z0); label.lrt("\im{B}",z0 shifted (4u,1u)); \stopMPcode} \stoptext