From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8563 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Johannes_H=FCsing?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: "Unable to make mpx file" Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:04:06 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020707100406.GA949@ruhrau.de> Reply-To: johannes.huesing@ruhrau.de NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398956 28590 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:49:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:49:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8563 Greetings, again, I am experiencing problems with MetaPost creating files with text included. The following is the contents of test-mpgraph.log after processing a file calles test.tex: This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (mem=metafun 2002.4.10) 10 APR 2002 22:25 **test-mpgraph (test-mpgraph.mp {randomseed:=525} write0 = `test-mpgraph.mpo'. >> test-mpgraph.mp >> test-mpgraph.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.90 label(btex Hallo wereld etex The two files given above are one of your source files and an auxiliary file I need to read to find out what your btex..etex blocks mean. If you don't know why I had trouble, try running it manually through MPto -tex, TeX, and DVItoMP. This is what the source looks like: \setupoutput[pdftex] \mainlanguage[de] \useencoding[win] \runMPgraphicstrue %\protectbufferstrue % Hack, um " nicht als active character zu definieren, % während Metapost bearbeitet wird \appendtoks \let\handlecompoundcharacter\string \to \everyMPgraphic \setupbodyfont [sansserif, 18pt] \startMPinclusions verbatimtex \newif\ifloadfontfileonce etex \stopMPinclusions \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{beispiel} label(btex Hallo wereld etex, origin); \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{beispiel} \stoptext What could be the reason? Greetings Johannes -- Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets hannes@ruhrau.de such wholesale returns of conjecture from such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain