:-))))) Solution? mpgraph.1 now generated and metapost invoked...

:-))))) Solution? mpgraph.1 now generated and metapost invoked...

[Patrick Gundlach]

Yessssssssssssss!

I am getting closer to the solution (?) of my darn problem:
in meta-ini.tex, I have changed the definition of \initializeMPgraphics to:

\def\initializeMPgraphics{\relax}

it was

\def\initializeMPgraphics% \unlinkfile{\MPgraphicfile.mp} -> empty file 
  {%\ifx\bufferprefix\empty \else 
     \immediate\openout\MPwrite\MPgraphicfile.mp
     \immediate\write\MPwrite{end.}%
     \immediate\closeout\MPwrite 
   }%\fi}

now metapost is invoked and the graphic is correctly included in my pdf 
file :-)))))))

The problem was that I always ended up with a file (mpgraph.mp) who's 
content was just a simple
end.
and after the final run, the mpgrap.mp contained a sensible contents. But 
that was not metaposted.
But I did not notice it at all, since texexec would not stop between the 
the different runs of context/etc.

-- 
Viele Grüße, 

    Patrick Gundlach

Re: :-))))) Solution? mpgraph.1 now generated and metapost invoked...

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:34 PM 2/22/01 +0100, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>Yessssssssssssss!
>
>I am getting closer to the solution (?) of my darn problem:
>in meta-ini.tex, I have changed the definition of \initializeMPgraphics to:
>
>\def\initializeMPgraphics{\relax}
>
>it was
>
>\def\initializeMPgraphics% \unlinkfile{\MPgraphicfile.mp} -> empty file 
>  {%\ifx\bufferprefix\empty \else 
>     \immediate\openout\MPwrite\MPgraphicfile.mp
>     \immediate\write\MPwrite{end.}%
>     \immediate\closeout\MPwrite 
>   }%\fi}
>
>
>now metapost is invoked and the graphic is correctly included in my pdf 
>file :-)))))))

If you wanto to change that, add your patch to you cont-sys.tex file, not
to meta-ini, 

\let\initializeMPgraphics\empty 

>The problem was that I always ended up with a file (mpgraph.mp) who's 
>content was just a simple
>end.

This should not give problems. 

>and after the final run, the mpgrap.mp contained a sensible contents. But 
>that was not metaposted.
>But I did not notice it at all, since texexec would not stop between the 
>the different runs of context/etc.

I'm a bit puzzled. Texexec won't even process files that small. 

Hans
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