Re: metapost problem

["Denis B. Roegel" <Denis.Roegel@loria.fr>]

`Marc van Dongen' wrote
>   
>   I am having a problem I cannot understand.
>   Perhaps there's something wrong with my
>   installation. When I run mpost on attached
>   tmp.mp I get attached tmp.0.
>   
>   I would have expected the letter $x$ to be
>   positioned at (1cm,0) but instead it is
>   positioned at (0,0). I've use boxes many
>   times but thins I cannot understand. Am I
>   doing something terribly wrong? Am I
>   overlooking something?  Any other suggestions?

Yes, you made the mistake to write xl.s  := (1cm,0);
instead of xl.s = (1cm,0). By using :=, you are messing
up internal equations in the boxes package and the result
you get is normal. I've had this problem a few weeks ago,
and it took me a while to find out! Never use := in these
contexts!

(Disclaimer: I haven't compiled your file, so this is a guess.)

Denis