From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/2812 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metafun manual Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:56:17 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000925235617.017f5410@pop.wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393585 12021 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:19:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Joop Susan In-Reply-To: <20000925182510.9922.qmail@crux.private.off-line> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:2812 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:2812 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------