OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a name with a period in it. Thusly, file 05.11.08.tex will not run MP to PDF, when I copy the exact same file to 05_11_08.tex, everything works as it should. This may have something to do with the fact (as I just found out) that newtexexec doesn't even want to touch these files. I have two identical files in a directory, one called 05.10.18.tex, the other 05_10_18.tex. Here's what happens when I run newtexexec on them: TeXExec | processing document '05.10.18.tex' TeXExec | runtime: 0.006379 (and that's it. No output, no action) TeXExec | processing document '05_10_18.tex' TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en TeXExec | progname: context This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./05_10_18.tex ConTeXt ver: 2005.09.08 fmt: 2005.9.9 int: english mes: english [snip] and so on. Bug or feature? You decide, Hans! Best Thomas On Sep 12, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough, everything went fine. I rebuilt the entire file, by pasting one paragraph of the original file at a time, and I got exactly the output I wanted. [Drumroll] I deleted the original file and everything associated with it [i.e. all those .tui and .tuo etc.], saved the new file from my /tmp directory to my working directory, and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot:
< \openout5 = `test-mpgraph.mp'. ---
\openout5 = `05.11.08-mpgraph.mp'. 205,206c206,207 < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1) [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.2) < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.3)
[MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.1] [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.2] [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.3] 211c212 < systems : end file test at line 426
systems : end file 05.11.08 at line 426 213c214 < [flush and process test-mpgraph.mp afterwards] )
[flush and process 05.11.08-mpgraph.mp afterwards] )
The "MP to PDF" part is missing from the file 05.11.08, which might explain why I don't see anything in the resulting pdf. But why? Can anybody enlighten me why the same file can behave differently? And how I can coax ConTeXt into running this MP to PDF thingy? Thanks
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