From: Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Trying MPtoPDF!
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:40:26 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110110124026.GC4079@smoon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D2AD2E4.5080101@ziggo.nl>
** Verhaag, G.C.H.M. [2011-01-10 10:35:32 +0100]:
> Vladimir Lomov wrote:
>>** Verhaag, G.C.H.M. [2011-01-08 10:54:53 +0100]:
>>>Hi,
>>[...]
>>>This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
>>>\write18 enabled.
>>This: "(TeX Live 2010)" contradicts with that:
>>>While trying to get some MetaPost plots converted to PDF, with the
>>>latest ConTeXt minimals installation (MkIV) on my Linux box, things
>>>happen which I don't understand, sorry!
>>[...]
>>>Do I need to install other tools to get it working?
>>I'm not sure. But before you have to be sure that you actually use
>>context minimals.
>>Suppose, that you have TeX Live 2010 installed here:
>>/usr/local/texlive/2010
>>and context minimals installed here:
>>/usr/local/opt/context
>>Then run terminal (konsole, gnome-terminal, xterm, urxvt, ...) and
>>do
>>$ . /usr/local/opt/context/tex/setuptex
>>and _after_ that run
>>$ mtxrun ...
>>If you still get an error something is really broken.
> Hi,
> No I haven't installed TeXLive2010, only ConTeXt minimals!
Sorry, I wasn't aware that pdftex from context minimal pretends to be
from TL 2010 (or this is intentionaly?).
I tried
$ mptopdf graph1_mp.mp
and saw only file name echoed.
The 'mptopdf' script contains
mtxrun --script base "$@"
Sorry for noise.
---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-08 9:54 Verhaag, G.C.H.M.
2011-01-08 15:19 ` Vladimir Lomov
2011-01-10 9:35 ` Verhaag, G.C.H.M.
2011-01-10 12:40 ` Vladimir Lomov [this message]
2011-01-10 13:35 ` Albrecht Kauffmann
2011-01-10 13:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
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