Re: Getting close

[David Arnold <darnold@northcoast.com>]

Hans, et al,

After making the change to texexec.pl suggested below, I am happy to report
that my system is crafting Metapost graphics on the fly, as is evidenced in
these beautiful lines in my log file:

system(mpost --alias=mpost --undump=metafun
context-matrices-mpgraph)...execute
d.

 [MP to PDF context-matrices-mpgraph.1]
(context-matrices-mpgraph.1)

At 06:01 PM 8/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>At 02:26 PM 8/23/2001 +0200, Hervé Rouault wrote:
>>Hi!!
>>
>>I have exactly the same problem (see problem with metapost). I'm happy that
>>i'm not alone ;-)
>>
>>I searched for the string "-progname=mpost" in texmf and the only files that
>>contains it are :
>>
>>texexec.ini and supp-mps.tex
>
>right, now, you can overload the one in supp-mps.tex in you local 
>cont-sys.tex, but what is better, you can repair a bug in texexec:
>
>There is a line there saying:
>
>   $TeXShell eq (MikTeX)
>
>which is pretty wrong and should be
>
>
>   if ($TeXShell =~ /MikTeX/io)
>
>that way, texexec will set the right flag (kind of). Can you try that?
>
>Hans
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