All, Does anyone know if pdflatex -shell-escape filename automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex?
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if
pdflatex -shell-escape filename
automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex?
I didn't even know that pdflatex *could* execute metapost on the fly (some package I presume?). You would have better luck asking this question on c.t.t., I think. Cheers, Taco
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if
pdflatex -shell-escape filename
automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex?
dunno, but you can so mptopdf --latex yourfile.mp Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans, Taco, Thanks for your replies. Not really a Context question, but we're using emp.sty with pdflatex to compile some work we're doing and our Linux server at school doesn't have the -tex=latex option for Metapost (an older version of Web2c). The package defaults to running metapost with -tex=latex, so that's a problem. We'll probably circumvent the problem by upgrading our tex distribution, but the package contains an \empTeX command that writes a verbatimtex ... tex. So far, I've had no success making this blank so I tried erasing the verbatim ... tex manually (it's got a documentclass and a begin{document} in it) and compiling the tex document with pdflatex and no -shell-escape, but the log file still contains metapost has no option -tex=latex in it. So that's why I was asking about the pdflatex. Don't worry about this, as our workaround will probably be to upgrade our version of tex and it will cease to be a problem. Just wanted to let you know what we are doing. If you want to see, try: http://scinux.redwoods.edu/cgi-bin/testing.cgi Use: username: hhagen123 password: password It's really amazing. We have this young student who taught himself perl this summer, and my colleague Bruce Wagner is no slouch either, and the result is we have these perl scripts that generate random test banks. Quizzes are self scored and results are sent to a mysql database. Good stuff for three hacks like us. On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if
pdflatex -shell-escape filename
automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex?
dunno, but you can so mptopdf --latex yourfile.mp Hans
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David Arnold wrote:
Hans, Taco,
Thanks for your replies. Not really a Context question, but we're using emp.sty with pdflatex to compile some work we're doing and our Linux server at school doesn't have the -tex=latex option for Metapost (an
For me works seting environment variable TEX=latex. vit
older version of Web2c). The package defaults to running metapost with -tex=latex, so that's a problem. We'll probably circumvent the problem by upgrading our tex distribution, but the package contains an \empTeX command that writes a verbatimtex ... tex. So far, I've had no success making this blank so I tried erasing the verbatim ... tex manually (it's got a documentclass and a begin{document} in it) and compiling the tex document with pdflatex and no -shell-escape, but the log file still contains metapost has no option -tex=latex in it.
So that's why I was asking about the pdflatex. Don't worry about this, as our workaround will probably be to upgrade our version of tex and it will cease to be a problem.
Just wanted to let you know what we are doing. If you want to see, try:
http://scinux.redwoods.edu/cgi-bin/testing.cgi
Use:
username: hhagen123 password: password
It's really amazing. We have this young student who taught himself perl this summer, and my colleague Bruce Wagner is no slouch either, and the result is we have these perl scripts that generate random test banks. Quizzes are self scored and results are sent to a mysql database.
Good stuff for three hacks like us.
On Aug 22, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Hans Hagen Outside wrote:
David Arnold wrote:
All,
Does anyone know if
pdflatex -shell-escape filename
automatically forces metapost to run with -tex=latex?
dunno, but you can so mptopdf --latex yourfile.mp Hans
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