Re: metafun manual

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 08:25 PM 9/25/00 +0200, Joop Susan wrote:

>Ok. I only used 'fmtutil -all' after every ConTEXt/pdftex update. Better 
>to use 'texexec'?

fmtutil does not handle mp mem files, probably because there are not so
many metapost formats

>> >Can you tell me why texexec cannot get this right in one run?

Context can if you enable runtime graphics : enable write 18 in texmf.cnf
and add the right switches to your local cont-sys.tex file (explained in
metafun manual).  

>Is there any way of automatically detecting this situation.

very hard, but i'm thinking of one. 

>Or does this mean that the only sure automated way to get a complete 
>guaranteed up-to-date PDF file is to run:
>
>rm -f test1.tui test1.tuo test1.tmp test1.top
>rm -f mpgraph.[0-9]* mpgraph.mp mpgraph.log tmpgraph.* cont-opt.bak
>texexec --pdf test1
>mpost mpgraph.mp
>texexec --pdf test1

no, just enable run time generation, which is what I here, really: no
problems at all

>This is the brute force solution, possibly at the expence of extra 
>processing time. Is this a bullet-proof final run?

as said, run time generated graphics are the best; fabrice popineau will
look into fast mpost launching in web2c, so that will speed up the process. 

Hans
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