Strange StartPage in Metapost

[Patrick Gundlach <patrick@gundla.ch>]

Hallo Frans and all the others out there,

> I ran your file on my pc and first of all the \%output=pdf line didn't
> seem to work unless I changed it into
> \setupoutput[pdftex]
>
> Then, why is there ny \ before "showframe" in your file?

that was a copy and paste error ;-) 

it should say:

%output=pdf
\showframe

> I can't "read" the MPost commands so I can't figure out what you expected
> to see but I only get a thick vertical line on page 1 which is not there
> on page 2. Uncommenting the
>
> > %\setupbackgrounds[page][background=DemoFrame]
>
> does nothing.

this line should be on the left edge of the text area.  And it should not 
appear with the above line commented.

> One question: I often see reference to "\input tufte" in mails and in
> some context files, but I don't have a file by that name on my pc. Is it
> something I should have of fill myself with random test lines?

in the new context versions there is a file called tufte.tex:

pg@levana:/opt/context$ find . -name tufte.tex
./2001.07.02/texmf/tex/context/sample/tufte.tex
./2001.07.11/texmf/tex/context/sample/tufte.tex

and also these files:
douglas.tex  knuth.tex  materie.tex  reich.tex  tufte.tex  zapf.tex

-- 
Viele Grüße, 

    Patrick Gundlach