I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the
problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help.
Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file.
However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special
version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from
http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/.
-- Cédric
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen
On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote:
Hi everybody,
I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is it still usable/valid feature?
I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp file and a tex file (which follows): \starttext \startMPcode input mp-grph ;
beginfig(1) ; graphictext "$e=mc^2$" scaled 10 dashed evenly withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; \stopMPcode \stoptext
It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest.
do you have pstoedit installed?
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