Re: Metaerror?

[Marc van Dongen <dongen@cs.ucc.ie>]

Berend de Boer (berend@pobox.com) wrote:

[problem]

Hi Berend,

Have you checked the contents of the temporary
log and error file mpost generates?

Maybe this will bring you closer to a discovery
of the error.

Also I noticed you use btex etex which doesn't
work properly with me. In stead I am using the
code appended below which I shamelessly stole
and adapted from
http://www.mathp7.jussieu.fr/~zoonek/LaTeX/Metapost/metapost.html 

You can use this macro and play sexy games like:
 .....
 counter := 3;
 boxit.ctr( LATEX( "The value of counter is "
                 & decimal( counter )
                 & ". Cool no?"
                 )
           );

Perhaps context's btex and etex work fine---I
don't use context. If you decide to use the macro
you may wish to change its prelude a bit so that
it complies with your Context settings.

Just a thought.

Regards,

Marc van Dongen

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

vardef LATEX primary s =
   write "verbatimtex"                    to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "\documentclass[12pt]{article}"  to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}"       to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "\usepackage{amsmath,amssymb}"   to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "\begin{document}"               to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "etex"                           to "mptextmp.mp";
   write "btex "&s&" etex"                to "mptextmp.mp";
   write EOF                              to "mptextmp.mp";
   scantokens "input mptextmp"
enddef;