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At 07:11 PM 2/1/2003 +0100, Johannes Hüsing wrote:
Dear all,
after installing the latest beta I tried to compile my old sources, but the metapost pass called from within a pdfetex run stopped with the error message:
! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean). <to be read again> ; l.24 spotcolors := true ;
Looking at the mpgraph file I see the following line:
if unknown context_spec : input mp-spec ; fi ;
and in my version of mp-spec spotcolors is declared to be boolean. Indeed, when I run 'mpost filename-mpgraph' I get no error message and all mp-* files are included.
Any hint on where context_spec et al are set?
(1) from now on, context's mp files are under /metapost/context/base, so remove any file in the parent path (2) did you make the metafun format (normally texexec --make --alone does the job) (3) looks like a mismatch between context (more recent) and older mp code [btw, spot colors are discussed in the new color manual] Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------