David Arnold wrote:
And mpxerr.log:
qdf $ cat mpxerr.log This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=latex 2006.6.27) 28 JUN 2006 09:10 entering extended mode **mpx509.tex (./mpx509.tex LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel
and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, d utch, italian, norsk, portuges, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <7> on input line 12. LaTeX Font Info: External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <5> on input line 12. [1] [1] [1] [1] ! I can't find file `mpx509.aux'. \enddocument ...makeatletter \input \jobname .aux \fi \@dofilelist \ifdim \f...
Educated guess: the 'embedded' latex never gets to see \documentclass nor \begin{document}, and therefore it does not write an .aux file. (In case you are wondering: the \end{document} is only there because it is automatically added by makempx). Taco PS Turns out there was something useful in the mpxerr.log after all ;)