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Hello David,

Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:34:07 PM, you wrote:

DA> Andreas,

DA> First, type:

DA> texexec --make --alone

DA> and see what happens.

  Well, after about a minute of tons of lines i get another error
  message :(.

<snip>
loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
) ( \localtexmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex
loading : Metapost Special Extensions
! Undefined control sequence.
1.537 \appendtoks
</snip>

  These are the lines 530 to 546, I tried already do mark the specific
  lines as comment, but then other error messages appear.

<snip>
\def\stopMPshading
  {\global\advance\currentPDFshade \plusone
   \setxvalue{obj:Sh:\currentMPspecial}%
     {/Sh\the\currentPDFshade\space\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }%
   \setxvalue{mps:Sh:\currentMPspecial}%
     {\the\currentPDFshade}}

\appendtoks
  \global\let\currentMPshades\empty
\to \MPstartresources

\appendtoks
  \ifx\currentMPshades\empty \else
    \xdef\currentPDFresources{\currentPDFresources
      /Shading <<\currentMPshades>>}%
  \fi
\to \MPstopresources
</snip>
DA> Look in \localtexmf\miktex\fmt and check the dates of
DA> cont-en.efmt. Look for a newly updated metafun.mem file. If there is one
DA> there, move it to \localtexmf\miktex\mem.

  I can't find neither cont-en.efmt nor metafun.mem on my harddisk,
  might it be there went something wrong during the installation?

-- 
Best regards,
 Andreas Steiger                   mailto:anstei@ksk.ch