On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 16:25:13 -0400 Aditya Mahajan wrote:

Quoting nicola :

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Hi, I have tried the following example (metafun-p.pdf, p. 112-3):

\startMPgraphic draw unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 2mm withcolor .625red; \stopMPgraphic

\hbox \bgroup \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=5cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \quad \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=8cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \egroup

but nothing is drawn unless I remove the setups in curly braces (in which case a rectangle 5cm x 1cm is drawn). Is there a different way to pass options to the figure inclusion macro?

Interesting....what is happening is something equivalent to

\externalfigure [\MPgraphicfile.\the\currentMPgraphic] [type=mps,object=no, symbol=yes,reset=yes, maxwidth=,maxheight=, frame=off,background=, width=8cm, height=1cm]%

and there is no figure. If I remove object=no, the figure is there. I do not understand why object=no should affect the placement of the figure.

Aditya

Hi, right, the object=no value is the problem. You can solve your problem by inserting the following macro somewhere before starttext in your document: \unprotect \def\insertMPfileARG#1#2% {\ifx\undefined\externalfigure \message{[insert file #1 here]}% \else \externalfigure [#1] [\c!type=\c!mps,\c!object=\v!yes, \c!symbol=\v!yes,\c!reset=\v!yes, \c!maxwidth=,\c!maxheight=, \c!frame=\v!off,\c!background=, #2]% \fi} \protect I changed only the "no" value from "object" to "yes". Wolfgang