Re: metapost not invoked? mpgraph.1 not created

[Patrick Gundlach <gundlach@irb.cs.uni-dortmund.de>]

Hi,

"nothing" happened: is just runs, no error messages are visible. 
(no output file like mpgraph.1 being generated)

gundlach@sarti:~/TeX/context/mprun$ texexec --mptex mpgraph.mp

 TeXExec 2.5 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2001

       metapost to tex : mpgraph
            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : tmpgraph
                output : dvips
             interface : en
               options : once
          current mode : all

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(tmpgraph.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]

ConTeXt  ver: 2001.1.9  fmt: 2001.2.19  int: english  mes: english

language       : language en is active

[....]
Output written on tmpgraph.dvi (1 page, 1128 bytes).
Transcript written on tmpgraph.log.

              run time : 0 seconds
       dvi to metapost : mpgraph
              metapost : mpgraph
                format : metafun
This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1)
(mpgraph.mp )
Transcript written on mpgraph.log.

------------------------
mpgraph.log:

This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.1) (mem=metafun 2001.2.19)  19 FEB 20
01 13:00
**&metafun mpgraph
(mpgraph.mp )
-------------------------
part of tmpgraph.log

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) (format=cont-en 2001.2.19
)  19 FEB 2001 16:14
**&cont-en tmpgraph.tex
(tmpgraph.tex[/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg]

[...]

\openout1 = `mpgraph.mp'.

 (/home/gundlach/TeX/texmf/tex/tufte.tex) [1.1]
systems        : end file tmpgraph at line 4
 ) 

[...]

Output written on tmpgraph.dvi (1 page, 1128 bytes).

--------------------------
the following files changed timestamp/size after the texexec 
--mptex mpgraph.mp run (no files were added to the directory).

changed timestamp:
mpgraph.log, mpgraph.mpx, tmpgraph.tui

changed filesize:
tmpgraph.log, tmpgraph.tmp

---------------------------
the tmpgraph.tmp:
\unprotect
\setupoutput[dvips]
\setupsystem[\c!gebied={/home/gundlach/}]
\protect

----------------------
I have removed the unlink statements in the texexec file. The 
dvi file looks fine, except the output is visible only half. The 
top half is above the upper limit of the 
page. The 
tmpgraph.tex looks like this:

\global \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue%
\shipout\hbox{\smash{\hbox{\hbox{% line 84 mpgraph.mp
\framed [width=fit,align=middle]{\input tufte \relax }}\vrule width1sp}}}
\end{document}
\end
------------

the mprun.log file tells me:

mprun.log:systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!

and

mprun.log:systems        : please update your pdfTeX binaries

anything to worry about for this problem?

this binary is not on my system:
set  DviSpecialScript   to  dvispec

Viele Gruesse,

  Patrick Gundlach