Followup to my previous post (see below)
I executed the code on the "live tex site" and, mirabile dictu, there it works.
The difference I can see is a much older pdfetex (Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)) on the live site, whereas I have a newer one (Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)).
Could that be the problem or must I dig deeper?
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Panic using metapost in context.
This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for textext calls!
\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{one}
draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
label (textext("label"), (10,25));
\stopuseMPgraphic
\useMPgraphic{one}
\stoptext
But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
What happened. This is disastrous.
yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer