In article <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>,
Steve MC Han
I was wondering if you could give me some direction. I'm having this error message in doing metapost.
! Unable to make mpx file. l.78 label.bot(btex $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u));
I don't know if that can help, but I had a similar problem some time ago. Try tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex to see the error message. In my case, it turned out that the problem was format-related: latex.fmt had been written by pdfetex, but makempx was calling tex instead of pdfetex. The solution was to add the line: TEX=pdfetex to texmf.cnf. I was experiencing the problem with gwTeX, though: since I am using TeX Live 2007 I have no problem at all. For your reference, this is the thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.metapost/323/focus=330 Nicola