Hi all, inline metapost generation was broken aftre upgrading context. I have seen the recent thread with several patches to texexec, so I updated to yesterday evening's beta in the hope that this would fix the problems. Unfortunately not. When trying to generate the mp graphic I get this error: sh: metafun: not found After that, mpost fails with: ! End of file on the terminal... why? Already when generating the metafun format with texexec --make, I get two errors: Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2291, <DATA> line 184. Use of uninitialized value in scalar assignment at /homes/eguthoeh/bin/texexec line 2292, <DATA> line 184. I'm currently using TeX (Web2C 7.4.3) 3.14159 from the bash shell under solaris. Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working? Thanks, -- Eckhart
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false the problem is that engine support is handled (kin dof) by the tex engines but it seems to be broken for mpost 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:44:08+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
I didn't have a texexec.ini before, so I copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini. After that, but before editing the file, texexec didn't find any formats anymore, it fails already for cont-en. After changing set UseEnginePath to false I now have the same situation as before. So, this obviously was not not the problem. Or did you mean something else? -- Eckhart
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:44:08+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
the problem is that engine support is handled (kin dof) by the tex engines but it seems to be broken for mpost
Obviously, texexec insists to call a comman named "metafun". I have created an executable file with that name in the path which just contains one line: mpost --progname mpost \&metafun $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 Admittedly not nice, but it seems to work, since mp graphics are generated, without any changes to texexec.rme/ini. However, I still get a strange message This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.3) ** ! End of file on the terminal... why? during the texexec run. So something is not quite ok, but I really don't know what. -- Eckhart
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 at 10:44:08+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
can you try todays alpha release? 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 20:51:18+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
can you try todays alpha release?
I did, it does not work. Each 'texexec --pdf' run fails with: Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'! No difference wether I set UseEnginePath to true or false in texexec.ini. At a loss, -- Eckhart
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 20:51:18+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
can you try todays alpha release?
I did, it does not work. Each 'texexec --pdf' run fails with:
Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'!
No difference wether I set UseEnginePath to true or false in texexec.ini.
locate texmf.cnf and check TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$ENGINE,} MFBASES = .;$TEXFORMATS MPMEMS = .;$TEXFORMATS TEXPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MFPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MPPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS are you running old binaries? 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 at 14:32:03+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 20:51:18+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
can you try todays alpha release?
I did, it does not work. Each 'texexec --pdf' run fails with:
Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'!
No difference wether I set UseEnginePath to true or false in texexec.ini.
locate texmf.cnf and check
TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$ENGINE,} MFBASES = .;$TEXFORMATS MPMEMS = .;$TEXFORMATS TEXPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MFPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MPPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS
My line was TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c The problem is not that I can't make tex find the formats. I think it is because texexec tries to launch a command named 'metafun' which does not exists, as the following lines of ouput of a texexec run suggest: metapost : try-mpgraph format : metafun sh: metafun: not found
are you running old binaries?
I have: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.3) This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.3) TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 ConTeXt ver: 2005.04.19 fmt: 2005.4.28 int: english mes: english As you mention it, now I see that texexec complains: systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs) Can this really be the reason? I don't have administrative access to the tex system here, so that would mean difficulties. -- Eckhart
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 at 14:32:03+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 at 20:51:18+0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>Does somebody know which patches still have to be applied to texexec to >get it working?
in texexec.ini/rme set the engine switch to false
As mentioned before, that didn't help.
can you try todays alpha release?
I did, it does not work. Each 'texexec --pdf' run fails with:
Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'!
No difference wether I set UseEnginePath to true or false in texexec.ini.
locate texmf.cnf and check
TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$ENGINE,} MFBASES = .;$TEXFORMATS MPMEMS = .;$TEXFORMATS TEXPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MFPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS MPPOOL = .;$TEXFORMATS
My line was TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c The problem is not that I can't make tex find the formats. I think it is because texexec tries to launch a command named 'metafun' which does not exists, as the following lines of ouput of a texexec run suggest:
metapost : try-mpgraph format : metafun sh: metafun: not found
are you running old binaries?
I have: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.10a-RC3-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.3) This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.3) TeXExec 5.3.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 ConTeXt ver: 2005.04.19 fmt: 2005.4.28 int: english mes: english
As you mention it, now I see that texexec complains: systems : pdfTeX version 110 -> please update systems : eTeX version 201 -> too old (bugs)
Can this really be the reason? I don't have administrative access to the tex system here, so that would mean difficulties.
the problem is that some things have changed in the way tex looks up files an option is to download the minimal linux context tree (from the website or a mirror) and install that in your home dir; fetch zip mkdir tex cd tex unzip here . setuptex cd .. and you live in a context tex space 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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