Shankar Ramaswamy wrote:

Dear Sir, This is shankar, one of your many admirers. I beg your pardon for disturbing you with my problem.

I am a user of METAPOST. Lately I've started using your METAFUN. I thank you, for it is more fun working with METAFUN.

The problem is, the macro "drawpointlabels" works well and produced the output as shown in metafun-p.pdf only in RedHat 9. But the labels will not appear when the same program is run either in Fedora or Slackware. I compared the macros present in RedHat 9 with those in Fedora and Slackware. There seems no difference.

Please suggest a solution to overcome this problem with porting the program.

metafun assume at some points a cooperation between mp and tex, so maybe that piece is failing does texexec --automp --pdf yourfile work? (if this is time-critical, you can try the minimal linus distribution on the website) btw, best post this to the context mailing list since there may be fedora users out there Hans