Hans, I have this one figured out. Nigel sent me the same suggestion. It's still the FunnyFace that is not going, as I wrote in my followup to Nigel and the Context list. That's the one that is preventing progress through that particular example in the metafun manual. Most everything else is working in the metafun manual thus far.

At 09:19 08/08/2003 -0700, darnold@northcoast.com wrote:

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C:\temp>mpost junk (junk.mp (C:\texmf\metapost\context\base\mp-tool.mp)

this is just calling metapost with mp-tool

you may try "input metafun" instead

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unknown picture p textext.rt ! Equation cannot be performed (unknown picture=numeric). <to be read again> ( l.7 p:=textext.rt( "Hello, world!"); ?

texexec --mptex junk.mp

or

mpost -mem=metafun junk.mp

or

\starttext

\startMPpage

some code

\stopMPpage

\stoptext

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