I have some further information on the problem below. It turns out not something with position graphics. Instead it is a rogue footnote (that is being colored). It seems that this happens only when the footnote is at a particular point on the page; it is therefore next to impossible to give a minimal example. With some extra thought what happens seems to be this.
PlainTextArea:=boundingbox((95.23926pt,72.9016pt)--(95.23926pt, 72.9016pt);
The area above is made and somehow finished with a semicolon. Then the next part, the shift is put out:
shifted (609.52148pt,476.59792pt));;
Together making a statement which is correct except for the intervening semicolon. As it occurs only at specificly placed footnotes, it looks like a subtle flaw in the footnote background generation. I would be happy for a solution, because otherwise typesetting text with footnotes could become a nightmare. Hans van der Meer On Jul 8, 2006, at 20:49, Hans van der Meer wrote:
First everything is OK and then suddenly I start getting errors in (metafun) position graphics:
! Missing `)' has been inserted. <to be read again> ; l.118 ...926pt,72.9016pt)--(95.23926pt,72.9016pt);
The mpgraph.mp file says at this point:
PlainTextArea:=boundingbox((95.23926pt,72.9016pt)--(95.23926pt, 72.9016pt); shifted (609.52148pt,476.59792pt));;
What is happening?