Re: shading, Trying shading example, missing metafun.mem

["Christopher Tipper" <chris.tipper@e-conomist.fsnet.co.uk>]

I quote from page 355 of the metafun manual

When you use the macros that come with CONT E XT, you may wish to package them in a memory dump file that can be loaded fast. You can do that by the following command.

mpost --ini metafun

You have to move the resulting mem file to the location where METAPOST expects to find it. If you want to be sure that everything is done correctly, you may try:

texexec --make --alone metafun

I recommend the last method. I don't know what it's like for tetex or web2c but for miktex put the .mem file in texmf\miktex\mem.

Hope this helps,
Christopher
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Porter" <txporter@mindspring.com>
To: <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: shading, Trying shading example, missing metafun.mem

> I have the most recent stable pdfTeX and ConTeXt versions, but when I
> ran he recently posted shading example, I got an error message during my
> texexec run saying that metafun.mem could not be found, was using
> mpost.mem instead.
> 
> I scanned dejanews and google, but no mention of metafun.mem
> 
> Any help welcome.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Porter                                   txporter@mindspring.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> "On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 
> 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will 
> the right answers come out?'  I am not able rightly to apprehend the 
> kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1)
> Sorry, I can't find the mem file `metafun.mem'; will try `mpost.mem'.
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>  TeXExec 2.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
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>               metapost : mpgraph
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