On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:59:04 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

On 11/12/2012 10:43 AM, Alan BRASLAU wrote:

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Hello,

Were do MetaPost messages go using mplib? (>/dev/null?) I see nothing on the console nor in the log file.

Alan

\starttext \startMPpage message "a circle" ; draw fullcircle scaled 2 cm ; \stopMPpage \stoptext

the next beta has:

\enabletrackers[metapost.showlog]

Thanks (Should this be enabled by default?) Alan

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:29:41 +0100 luigi scarso wrote:

hm, write on std{err,out} slows down the process

But normally there should be very few messages, as message and show should be used with parsimony... (Indeed there are very few in the standard metapost and metafun macros) Maybe in ConTeXt we should have a distinction in allowing the turning on of one or the other (show, message and errmessage). Alan

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:59:04 +0100 Hans Hagen wrote:

the next beta has:

\enabletrackers[metapost.showlog]

produces: metapost > log: [1] metapost > log: (Please type a command or say `end') Clearly we do not want to see this prompt... Alan