mpgraph.mp

mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

As I wrote earlier today, I have forgotten how to solve the problem of this
message coming on after every TeX run, waiting for me to type "end":

Generating graphcs: metaposting MPJobName
This is metapost, version 0.641 (web2c 7.3.2x)
(mpgraphp.mp)
*

If anyone has any clue how I got into this and how I can get out of it... I
think I remember hunt down some file somewhere that indicates that MP should
do some job but I really don't know which and where.

Groet!

Frans

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

Hello Johannes,

I will surely report it if the problem goes away and if possible where it
went and what made it go away ;=}}

> From: "Johannes H?sing" <hannes@ruhrau.de>
> I have forgotten the reason but was faced with that problem before, now
> it does not occur to me anymore, but I couldn't track the reason. If you
> succeed in finding the answer, I'd be grateful if you could write it down
> for me to include it in the FAQ.

> > Generating graphcs: metaposting MPJobName
> > This is metapost, version 0.641 (web2c 7.3.2x)
> > (mpgraph.mp)
> > *

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Ed L Cashin]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> You may try the following: 
> 
> texexec --make --alone metafun
> 
> Indeed, a real metapost format,
> 
> I wanna know if this works for everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]

It doesn't work with the stable context, but it does seem to work with
the beta version:

    myhost:3:root texmf# texexec --make --alone metafun

     TeXExec 2.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000

    This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INIMP)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp
    Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-tool.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-spec.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-core.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-page.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-text.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-shap.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-butt.mp)
    (/usr/local/tex/share/texmf/metapost/context/mp-char.mp) )
    Beginning to dump on file metafun.mem
     (mem=metafun 2000.9.11)
    at most 2116 strings of total length 29827
    25392 memory locations dumped; current usage is 9163&16120
    1083 symbolic tokens
    Transcript written on metafun.log.

                TeX binary : pdfetex
                 format(s) : metafun

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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:35 AM 9/9/00 +0200, Frans Goddijn wrote:
>> texexec --make --alone metafun
>> I wanna know if this works for everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]
>
>My texexec says it can't find cont-metafun so I think I must first get
some extra file from your site...

Thenm you run the old texexec

Hans
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

>   As a side note. Is there any ntg-context archive on the net?

There is one temporarily, let's see if it's still there...

try

ftp://ftp.let.uu.nl/pub/users/Jules.vanWeerden/context.zip

Jules put it there for me so I could take a selection of articles from it for the MAPS publication.

One little problem that I had with this file: when unzipping, you find that every message is one file with the filename identica to
the subject line. This means that some messages have funny characters in the filename like question marks and .. dots which makes
DOS put the file in the root dir (..) or it confuses DOS with the funny characters that are usually not in filenames.

>   If not,
>   can anyone provide me with plaintext postings reaching as far as
>   possible (UNIX mbox/MMDF format prefered), so I could make such an
>   archive?

If you could produce an archive that won't lose messages like I had, that would be a great help!

What I did was:

1) make a directory listing of all files/messages that survived the unzip operation
2) have this sorted
3) add TYPE before every line and >>ALL after it
4) run it as a batchfile command
thus creating one file with all visible messages in one consecutive order.

Best regards,

Frans

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

Slawek said:

>   Nope. Just unpack the beta cont-tmf.zip and run mktexlsr.

I did, then I did texexec --make --alone metafun and I got the text below. Any ideas?

 TeXExec 2.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2c 7.3.1) (INITEX)
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `cont-metafun'.
<*> *cont-metafun

Please type another input file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<*> *cont-metafun

No pages of output.
Transcript written on texput.log.

            executable : pdfetex
             format(s) : metafun

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Slawek Zak]

"Frans Goddijn" <frans@iaf.nl> writes:

> > texexec --make --alone metafun I wanna know if this works for
> >everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]
> 
> My texexec says it can't find cont-metafun so I think I must first get
> some extra file from your site...

  Nope. Just unpack the beta cont-tmf.zip and run mktexlsr.

/S
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Slawek Zak]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> texexec --make --alone metafun
> 
> Indeed, a real metapost format,
> 
> I wanna know if this works for everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]

  It worked for me on TexLive 5b:

  This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1x) (INIMP)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/base/plain.mp
  Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-tool.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-spec.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-core.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-page.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-text.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-shap.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-butt.mp)
  (/u/TeX/texmf/metapost/context/mp-char.mp) )
  Beginning to dump on file metafun.mem
   (mem=metafun 2000.9.9)
  at most 2116 strings of total length 29826
  25392 memory locations dumped; current usage is 9163&16120
  1083 symbolic tokens
  Transcript written on metafun.log.

  As a side note. Is there any ntg-context archive on the net? If not,
  can anyone provide me with plaintext postings reaching as far as
  possible (UNIX mbox/MMDF format prefered), so I could make such an
  archive?

/S
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

> texexec --make --alone metafun
> I wanna know if this works for everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]

My texexec says it can't find cont-metafun so I think I must first get some extra file from your site...

Groet!

Frans

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:51 PM 9/8/00 +0200, Slawek Zak wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>> Strange, then is there a line
>> 
>>             if (-e $MpFile and (-s $MpFile>25))
>
>  *Now* there is. I unpacked cont-wrk over cont-tmf. But texexec.pl in
>  cont-tmf is obviously newer (v2.2). Sorry for bothering you.

You may try the following: 

texexec --make --alone metafun

Indeed, a real metapost format,

I wanna know if this works for everybody, [see texexec.rme for new entries]

Hans 
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Slawek Zak]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Strange, then is there a line
> 
>             if (-e $MpFile and (-s $MpFile>25))

  *Now* there is. I unpacked cont-wrk over cont-tmf. But texexec.pl in
  cont-tmf is obviously newer (v2.2). Sorry for bothering you.

Best regards and have a nice weekend, /S
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:48 PM 9/8/00 +0200, Slawek Zak wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>> This is indeed a problem in the beta you run. I fixed it yesterday. For the
>> moment you can try --nomprun. It has to do with the fact that I want to
>> make sure that there is no temp file left and deleting comes down to
>> open/close which leads to a file with length 0 etc etc. It's fixed now. 
>
>  Hmm. I've tried the latest beta (about 20 minutes ago) and there is
>  still the empty mpgraph.mp problem. --nomprun doesn't help
>  either... :(

Strange, then is there a line

            if (-e $MpFile and (-s $MpFile>25))

in your texexec.pl? 

Hans
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:42 PM 9/8/00 +0200, Slawek Zak wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>> I checked this, but on tex live there is only graph.mp, so i think
>> mpgraph.mp is a save and non conflicting name.
>
>  Well. In my TL 5b (polish version) there is mpgraph :
>
>    /usr/TeX/texmf/doc/metapost/base/mpgraph.mp

Ah, that's in doc, which is never in the search path anyway (since it's not
in texmf/metapost/base). It's the manual to graph.mp. So, we can safely
forget about this name clash. Thanks for the pointer.

Hans
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Slawek Zak]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> This is indeed a problem in the beta you run. I fixed it yesterday. For the
> moment you can try --nomprun. It has to do with the fact that I want to
> make sure that there is no temp file left and deleting comes down to
> open/close which leads to a file with length 0 etc etc. It's fixed now. 

  Hmm. I've tried the latest beta (about 20 minutes ago) and there is
  still the empty mpgraph.mp problem. --nomprun doesn't help
  either... :(

/S
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:13 PM 9/7/00 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
>Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
>
>: The file involved is the file with runtime graphics that context generates
>: (mpgraph.mp and mprun.mp). When one adds \protectbufferstrue to the local
>: cont-sys.tex file, it's named jobname-mpgraph.mp. I wasn't aware of another
>: mpgraph file being aroun don the system. 
>
>The one that comes with the TETEX distributionn is the
>one by John D. Hobby to draw graphs from data in files.
>See http://www.tug.org/metapost.html and follow the
>link ``drawing graphs with metapost.''

I checked this, but on tex live there is only graph.mp, so i think
mpgraph.mp is a save and non conflicting name. 

Hans
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:19 PM 9/7/00 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
>Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:
>
>: This is indeed a problem in the beta you run. I fixed it yesterday. For the
>: moment you can try --nomprun. It has to do with the fact that I want to
>: make sure that there is no temp file left and deleting comes down to
>: open/close which leads to a file with length 0 etc etc. It's fixed now. 
>
>I don't know how you solved this, but I myself
>only generate temporary files whose names start
>with an underscore. This avoids (for as far as I
>know) name-clashes with other existing things.

In most cases i give them extensions like .tmp, but the few mp files have
.mp (and .mpd for tex-mp communication). Underscore is always kind of
special in tex. Until now prefixing with \jobname proved to be ok. BTW,
texexec now also supports suffixing so that one can have multiple output
versions of one input file while context itself knows what the original is.
Yet undocumented.

Hans 
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: This is indeed a problem in the beta you run. I fixed it yesterday. For the
: moment you can try --nomprun. It has to do with the fact that I want to
: make sure that there is no temp file left and deleting comes down to
: open/close which leads to a file with length 0 etc etc. It's fixed now. 

I don't know how you solved this, but I myself
only generate temporary files whose names start
with an underscore. This avoids (for as far as I
know) name-clashes with other existing things.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Marc

Re: mpgraph.mp

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: The file involved is the file with runtime graphics that context generates
: (mpgraph.mp and mprun.mp). When one adds \protectbufferstrue to the local
: cont-sys.tex file, it's named jobname-mpgraph.mp. I wasn't aware of another
: mpgraph file being aroun don the system. 

The one that comes with the TETEX distributionn is the
one by John D. Hobby to draw graphs from data in files.
See http://www.tug.org/metapost.html and follow the
link ``drawing graphs with metapost.''

Regards,

Marc
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 03:17 PM 9/7/00 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
>Frans Goddijn (frans@iaf.nl) wrote:
>
>: There's a file called mpgraph.mp in the directory where I compile a .tex
file using texexec and now after every run of texexec, a
>: log text comes on screen saying it's metaposting mpgraph.mp and I must
enter a acommand at the * or type END.
>: 
>: I didn't have this before and I can't see how I got into this... When I
type END every time the respons comes on screen I seem to be
>: out of trouble but should I do something else to avoid this?
>
>Hi Frans,
>
>
>Do you need this file? If so, have you tried to remove
>or rename it? It is part of the standard mpost/(La)TeX
>distribution and perhaps you are using the wrong one
>(in the current directory).  For example, on my system
>it is in share/texmf/doc/metapost/base/mpgraph.mp in my
>TETEX directory.

The file involved is the file with runtime graphics that context generates
(mpgraph.mp and mprun.mp). When one adds \protectbufferstrue to the local
cont-sys.tex file, it's named jobname-mpgraph.mp. I wasn't aware of another
mpgraph file being aroun don the system. 

Hans

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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:07 PM 9/7/00 +0200, you wrote:
>There's a file called mpgraph.mp in the directory where I compile a .tex
file using texexec and now after every run of texexec, a
>log text comes on screen saying it's metaposting mpgraph.mp and I must
enter a acommand at the * or type END.
>
>I didn't have this before and I can't see how I got into this... When I
type END every time the respons comes on screen I seem to be
>out of trouble but should I do something else to avoid this?

This is indeed a problem in the beta you run. I fixed it yesterday. For the
moment you can try --nomprun. It has to do with the fact that I want to
make sure that there is no temp file left and deleting comes down to
open/close which leads to a file with length 0 etc etc. It's fixed now. 

Hans 
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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Marc van Dongen]

Marc van Dongen (dongen@cs.ucc.ie) wrote:

Oops:

: Do you need this file? If so, have you tried to remove

                            ^^
Should have been ``If not so.''

Regards,

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Re: mpgraph.mp

[Marc van Dongen]

Frans Goddijn (frans@iaf.nl) wrote:

: There's a file called mpgraph.mp in the directory where I compile a .tex file using texexec and now after every run of texexec, a
: log text comes on screen saying it's metaposting mpgraph.mp and I must enter a acommand at the * or type END.
: 
: I didn't have this before and I can't see how I got into this... When I type END every time the respons comes on screen I seem to be
: out of trouble but should I do something else to avoid this?

Hi Frans,

Do you need this file? If so, have you tried to remove
or rename it? It is part of the standard mpost/(La)TeX
distribution and perhaps you are using the wrong one
(in the current directory).  For example, on my system
it is in share/texmf/doc/metapost/base/mpgraph.mp in my
TETEX directory.

Just a thought,

De groenten (met spekjes),

Marc van Dongen
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mpgraph.mp

[Frans Goddijn]

There's a file called mpgraph.mp in the directory where I compile a .tex file using texexec and now after every run of texexec, a
log text comes on screen saying it's metaposting mpgraph.mp and I must enter a acommand at the * or type END.

I didn't have this before and I can't see how I got into this... When I type END every time the respons comes on screen I seem to be
out of trouble but should I do something else to avoid this?

Grpoet,

Frans

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