I am afraid I don't completely understand this. Doing: \startbuffer[fig-1] \startMPcode draw origin-(20,0) .. origin+(0,20) .. origin+(20,0) .. origin+(0,-20) .. cycle withcolor darkgreen; label(textext("Test"),origin); \stopMPcode \stopbuffer \starttext \processMPbuffer[fig-1] \stoptext I get the error: ! Argument of \dostartMPpositiongraphic has an extra }. system > tex > error on line 8 in file onfly.tex: Argument of ... 1 \startbuffer[fig-1] 2 \startMPcode 3 draw origin-(20,0) .. origin+(0,20) .. origin+(20,0) .. origin+(0,-20) .. cycle withcolor darkgreen; 4 label(textext("Test"),origin); 5 \stopMPcode 6 \stopbuffer 7 \starttext 8 >> \processMPbuffer[fig-1] .. <inserted text> \par <to be read again> } \processMPgraphic ...le ;\!!es , \MPaskedfigure )} }\egroup \placeMPgraphic \... \doprocessMPbuffer ...("\currentMPgraphicname ")}} \endMPgraphicgroup l.8 \processMPbuffer[fig-1] Hans van der Meer On 29 sep. 2011, at 21:21, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011, Meer, H. van der wrote:
I would like to generate metapost figures in separate pdf-files (in some convenient directory, they are reused elsewhere). This as part of a project structure. I know that on a separate run such a pdf can be generated with: context figurefile running on input \input some-metapost-inclusions \starttext \startMPpage .. \stopMPpage \stoptext
But the idea is to do it on the fly while typesetting a project (using mode=*first to prevent further iterations): .. \component figurefile .. And in the figurefile \startcomponent figurefile \environment some-metapost-inclusions \starttext .. BUT THEN WHAT?
As such it is not sufficient for the goal proposed. Can this be done at all?
What I usually do is have all the figures in separate buffers:
\startenvironment figures
\startbuffer[fig-1] ... \stopbuffer
\stopenvironment
and in the main file
\environment figures
\starttext .... \processMPbuffer[fig-1] .... \stoptext
This way you can also combine multiple figures using
\processMPbuffer[fig-common,fig-1]
etc.
The metapost processing is fast enough that there is no noticable speed difference.
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