From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5394 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[4]: New Beta Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:09:10 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <1564885391.20010825110910@bigfoot.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20010824091417.0087da10@mail.northcoast.com> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395985 1292 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cs@miktex.org, ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: David Arnold In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010824091417.0087da10@mail.northcoast.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5394 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5394 David, Friday, August 24, 2001 you wrote: DA> 5. Run texexec --make to build the formats. Because the TeXFormatPath is DA> set in texexec.ini, the formats are created AND moved into the correct DA> place in my /localtexmf/miktex/fmt. I move the formats by hand. This is basically the difference, I believe. Anyway, you could probably report the "limited-length cmdline" to Christian Schenk ... provided that it's a MiKTeX limitation and not an operating system limitation as I suspect. DA> 7. Then I run DA> texexec --make --alone --format=mptopdf DA> This places mptopdf.efmt in /locatexmf/miktex/fmt. Then I take runperl.exe DA> and rename it to mptopdf.exe. These all used to be in DA> \miktex\context\perltk, but Christian has moved texexec.exe into the DA> \miktex\miktex\bin directory, which is on the path created when Miktex is DA> installed. Small question: where does the texexec.exe provided in the latest MiKTeX look for the Perl things? DA> This is a cool piece of software which allows me to type DA> mptopdf filename.1 DA> where filename.1 is Metapost output. The result is the file filename-1.pdf. DA> Nice, huh? The command also accepts wildcards, as in DA> mptopdf filename.? or mptopdf filename.* DA> Old habits die hard, so I'm not quite sure how I want to setup my new DA> Miktex, but I am learning. I wonder: doesn't the MiKTeX-prodived epstopdf do the same? Hear you on the list, Giuseppe