Re: [NTG-context] Does Makempy still work?

I tried some other text and it appears that it can display (some) maths, but no text. graphictext "something" scaled 10 withdrawcolor red withfillcolor green withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; doesn't work either. P.S. : I am sorry, I just noticed the object of the message does not start like the others. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:55, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

I forgot to mention that the spacing is correct though nothing appears (file included).

-- Cédric

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:53, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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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 wrote:

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On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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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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