Re: MP Graph and texnum.mpx

["Adam T. Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>]

Hi Hans.

Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:35:33 +0100:

>>Some system details: I'm running a fresh TeXLive 7 install, with the
>>latest ConTeXt from the website. I have \write18 enabled,
>>\runMPfraphicstrue, \runMPTEXgraphicstrue, and MPXCOMMAND = texexec --
>>mptex. On the slightly unusual side, I have \forceMPTEXgraphictrue, which
>>seemed necessary at one point, and no \recycleMPslotstrue, which seemed
>>unnecessary.
>
>get the latest version from out site, and load graph module:
>
>\usemodule[graph]
>
>This will provide you with integration of the graph package (with a few 
>advantages, like properly typeset labels and so);

Oh, sorry I wasn't clear about this. I've been using the cont-tmf from
2002.10.11. m-graph.tex from that version is the same version as what
currently up there (2002.10.23) . I have indeed been using 
\usemodule[graph], and getting generally good results once texnum.mpx is
around. 

I'd call it a very repeatable bug (installation issue?). When there is no
texexec.mpx in the current directory: no MP graphs; if there is: fairly
nice results. The labels are correctly typeset, but the axis numbers are
not (the cmr problem below).

If you're saying that it should be taken care of, then there's probably
something wrong with my installation that's not dynamically generating
texnum.mpx when it's supposed to.

>As a side question, would I have to fiddle with texmf/metapost/base/
>>texnum.mp to affect the font of the x- and y-axis numbers on an MPGraph
>>plot? They seem to stick to CMR no matter what I do to defaultfont in
>>MetaPost.
>
>no, texnum cum suis are actulay spoiling the game, but it should work ok now

Hmm. Seeing as everything that relies on m-graph is working fine, I'm
more convinced it's in the on-the-fly generation of mpx files. I had
problems with it with MPXCOMMAND as both makempx and texexec.

Many thanks,
adam


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