mån 2008-11-24 klockan 09:08 -0500 skrev Aditya Mahajan:
> On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jan-Erik Hägglöf wrote:
> 
> > Hi All!
> >
> > I'm in beginning to write a thesis in physics(undergraduate level) and
> > one of many things I wanna do is, cause I create much illustrations in
> > DIA http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/
> > and the program can export to figure.mp, to include these in my
> > document.
> >
> > I've read the instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mpgraphic
> >
> > I do not get this working. How is the best way to accomplish this?
> 
> See the attached file. Dia exports the figure with
> verbatimtex
> &latex
> etex
> 
> which tells metapost to run labels through latex. I guess that this is 
> what causes the errors. If you simply remove some of the boiler plate, the 
> figure compiles fine (see attached file)
> 
> > The reason is why I want to do in this way is to input tex code in the
> > figure (especially math and symbol definitions) and optionally place
> > them in specific places inside the figure. By this method I can even do
> > better illustrations, hopefully.
> >
> > My workflow has been like this:
> >
> > 1. Create the desired figure in DIA and choose the export option. TeX
> > metapost *.mp(see attached file ).
> >
> > 2. Tryed to do inclusion in a TeX-document like this
> >
> > \startstaticMPfigure{magflux}
> >  the code in the attached file
> > \stopstaticMPfigure
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > Here is my figure \usestaticMPfigure[magflux][width=0.8\textwidth]
> >
> > \stoptext
> >
> > But it fails with errormessage:
> >
> > !Paragraph ended before \startstaticMPfigure was complete .....
> >
> > Should I place part of the code in some definitions?
> 
> I do not get this error, but staticMPfigure is not working for me. I would 
> recomment not to use staticMPfigure, rather use useMPfigure.
> 
> (I had asked Hans for staticMPfigure a few years ago when TeX-MP 
> interaction was slow. Now, with MPLib I do not think that we need the 
> staticMPfigure mechanism. Personally, I haven't used it for a while)
> 
> I also had to add
> 
> save x, y, t, p ; %%%% Added this line
> 
> to include the figure multiple times (or to include multiple figures, I 
> would imagine).
> 
> Aditya
Thanks to all answers. I got it work, though a minor problem left, it
seems that "calligraphy" is not working.

 line 108 draw btex { $ \vec{\cal B }$} etex.....

see the new attached file.

Janneman