thanks a lot Hans, now it works perfect! maybe later you can write a script to make the installation and configuration automatic? ConTeXt is great, but sometimes it's a little boring to make it working properly. Thanks again for your nice ConTeXt! best regards, Minchao ======= 2004-10-04 ???????:=======

Sun Minchao wrote:

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/Hi,/ // /recently I've installed ConTeXt and after all the complicated configurations I could finally write my first chinese text, but as I tried MetaFun today, I got very strange error message: I tried to compile the trivial sample on the first page of "metafun-p.pdf":/ // /\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext/ // /I invoked "texexec test", after some messages scrolled by it stopped and show: / // !Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean) local_multi_par_area:=false;

/I traced to that line in the file "test-mpgraph.mp" which has been produced by texexec in the first step and I simply deleted it, then I ran "mpost test-mpgraph" manually and got "test-mpgraph.1" without any problem, but as I viewed it with GSview there was only a quarter of disc, which should be a 5cm filled circle. I've also tried with other Metapost files but got always the same result: that line will always be added to the intermedia file. I think it's not because of a wrong configuration of ConTeXt but something "deep inside". / /btw. I'm using MikTeX 2.2, ActivePerl 5.8, ConTeXt is the newest version while TeXExec somehow old (v3.1), but I don't think the problem lies there because exept metapost the other part works well, for the configuration of MetaFun I've done following:/ // /I first edited the corresponding part of /texmf/context/config/texexec.ini to be suited to MikTeX, then after refreshing MikTeX name database I did a "texexec --make --alone metafun", it produced metafun.mem in /localtexmf/miktex/fmt, I moved it then to /localtexmf/miktex/mem/ // /now I absolutely have no idea about it... I would be very thankful if someone can tell how to fix around, besides I do want to know what's wrong./

it look slike you have a mixed up system:

make sure that there is

metapost/context/base -> files

and not at the same time:

metapost/context -> files

the extra level base has been added about a year ago.

After fixing this, run

texexec --make --alone metafun

and make sure that the mem files goes to where it belongs

Hans

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