Hans Hagen wrote:

beginfig(1) ;

numeric u ; u = 1.0cm ;

for i=-10 upto 10 : if not (i=0) : draw textext.lft("$" & decimal i & "$") shifted (i*u,0) ; fi ; endfor;

endfig ;

end

given that you have configured texexec well:

texexec --mptex thisfile.mp mptopdf thisfile.1

With ConTeXt 2003.8.15, I get (\000) in thisfile.1, which mptopdf does not handle: ! Undefined control sequence. l.14 (\0 00) cmsy10 11.95514 fshow These seem to be the minus signs. Regards, Christopher Creutzig