From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3063 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Unable to make mpx file Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2000 20:47:05 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001022204705.008e3e30@pop.wxs.nl> References: <20001021224158.57767@spi.power.uni-essen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393823 13919 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:23:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:23:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: johannes.huesing@uni-essen.de In-Reply-To: <20001021224158.57767@spi.power.uni-essen.de> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3063 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3063 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------