Re[2]: [NTG-context] Metapost calling TeX (ConTeXt)

22 May 2003

      Wednesday, May 21, 2003 Dennis Brakhane wrote:

DB> Am Mittwoch, den 21.Mai 2003 um 22:21 schrieb Laurent Chéno:
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(please excuse my poor english)
I'm using ConTeXt with the distribution of teTeX by Gerben Wierda (with
iInstaller) under MacOS X (10.2.6).
Version of texmf.ii2 : 2003/04/15 12:03:57
This works perfectly :
\starttext
      \startMPpage
              label("aa",(0,0)) ;
              draw fullcircle scaled 3cm ;
      \stopMPpage
\stoptext
\end
But this don't work :
\starttext
      \startMPpage
              label(btex aa etex,(0,0)) ;
              draw fullcircle scaled 3cm ;
      \stopMPpage
\stoptext
\end
Who can help me ?
DB> If you get an empty page in the second example, it seems like you ran
DB> into the same "feature" I did.

DB> As I have posted earlier, you could try to fix it:

DB> Search for the file texexec.pl, make a backup, and edit it as follows:

DB> around line 2218, you will see something like this:
DB>                { while (/^l\.(\d+)\s/gmois)
DB>                   { print " error in metapost run : $MpName.mp:$1\n" } }
DB>               unlink "mptrace.tmp" ; rename ($MpFile, "mptrace.tmp") ;
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if (-e $MpKep)
               { unlink ($MpFile) ;
                 rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) } } }
DB> now cut the 3 marked ('>') lines (but without the last two '}' !), it will
DB> look like this:
DB>                { while (/^l\.(\d+)\s/gmois)
DB>                   { print " error in metapost run : $MpName.mp:$1\n" } }
DB>               unlink "mptrace.tmp" ; rename ($MpFile, "mptrace.tmp") ;
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} }
DB> (of course without the '>')

DB> and paste them after the 'print "metapost...."' statement around line
DB> 2200:

DB>                      rename $MpTex, $MpBck ;
DB>                      unlink $MpDvi } }
DB>               print "              metapost : $MpName\n" ;
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if (-e $MpKep)
               { unlink ($MpFile) ;
                 rename ($MpKep, $MpFile) }
DB>               my $cmd =
DB> "$own_quote$MpExecutable$own_quote" ;
DB>               if ($EnterBatchMode)
DB>                 { $cmd .= " $MpBatchFlag " }
DB> This should fix the problem.

DB> Let me know if this helped.

Ok, I just had a look at the old thread on this. Hans, have you
acknowledged the need for this patch?

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re[2]: [NTG-context] Metapost calling TeX (ConTeXt)

Giuseppe Bilotta