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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Unable to make mpx file
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:47:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001022204705.008e3e30@pop.wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001021224158.57767@spi.power.uni-essen.de>

At 10:41 PM 10/21/00 +0200, Johannes Hüsing wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I get the error message with Metapost: "Unable to make mpx file".
>It is generated when Metapost sees a btex macro. 

Hm. 

-  set mpxcommand in texmf.cnf to nothing 
-  use the latest texexec

>What am I doing wrong? In /usr/share/texmf/context/config/texexec.ini,
>the line "set  MpToTeXExecutable  to  mpto" is uncommented, and mpto 
>exists on my machine as an executable binary.
>
>I saw no mentioning of that error message in the Metapost manual.

you may try to run the graphic with 

  texexec --mptex mpgraph.mp

>Any quick answers would be welcome (I have the talk on Monday and I 
>would really hate to have to re-write everything to FoilTeX tomorrow)

do you really need the btex .. etex ? 

Hans

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2000-10-21 20:41 Johannes Hüsing
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2000-10-22 21:34   ` Johannes Hüsing

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