* Integrating Metapost
@ 2003-10-30 7:44 Lutz Haseloff
2003-10-30 12:54 ` Nigel King
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From: Lutz Haseloff @ 2003-10-30 7:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hallo all,
Running texexec on a ConTeXt-file with integrated
METAPOST-Graphics METAPOST complains about:
---------------------------
>>>> local_multi_par_area
>>>> false
! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean).
<to be read again>
;
l.218 local_multi_par_area:=false;
?
---------------------------
and stops.
There are no duplicate ConTeXt mp-files on this
machine.
The same file works on another Computer.
What can the error be?
Greetings Lutz
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2003-10-30 7:44 Integrating Metapost Lutz Haseloff
@ 2003-10-30 12:54 ` Nigel King
2003-10-30 15:30 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-10-30 17:45 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Nigel King @ 2003-10-30 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
> l.218 local_multi_par_area:=false;
Presuming that the line is in your file as written I think you need a line
earlier which says
boolean local_multi_par_area;
--
Nigel
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* Re: Integrating Metapost
2003-10-30 7:44 Integrating Metapost Lutz Haseloff
2003-10-30 12:54 ` Nigel King
@ 2003-10-30 15:30 ` Patrick Gundlach
2003-10-30 17:45 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2003-10-30 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lutz Haseloff <Lutz.Haseloff@lbapdm.brandenburg.de> writes:
> What can the error be?
anything. Perhaps an out of sync ConTeXt and metafun version. Please
regenerate metafun and ConTeXt formats, make a simple test file, run
it, double check that the versions are OK and if the error persist,
please post a minimal (but complete) testfile with logfile! Not just
the error.
Patrick
--
You are your own rainbow!
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* Re: Integrating Metapost
2003-10-30 7:44 Integrating Metapost Lutz Haseloff
2003-10-30 12:54 ` Nigel King
2003-10-30 15:30 ` Patrick Gundlach
@ 2003-10-30 17:45 ` Hans Hagen
2003-10-30 23:40 ` Andres Loeh
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2003-10-30 17:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
At 08:44 30/10/2003, you wrote:
>Hallo all,
>
>Running texexec on a ConTeXt-file with integrated
>METAPOST-Graphics METAPOST complains about:
>
>---------------------------
> >>>> local_multi_par_area
> >>>> false
>
>! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean).
looks like an old version of metafun with a new version of context; make
sure that the metafun macros are in metapost/context/base (and not in one
of the parent directories) and regenerate the format (texexec --make
--alone metafun)
Hans
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* Re: Integrating Metapost
2003-10-30 17:45 ` Hans Hagen
@ 2003-10-30 23:40 ` Andres Loeh
2003-10-31 10:55 ` Patrick Gundlach
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From: Andres Loeh @ 2003-10-30 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
> >>>>> local_multi_par_area
> >>>>> false
> >
> >! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=boolean).
>
> looks like an old version of metafun with a new version of context; make
> sure that the metafun macros are in metapost/context/base (and not in one
> of the parent directories) and regenerate the format (texexec --make
> --alone metafun)
This seems to be a very common problem. Isn't it possible
to integrate a check into the metafun code so that a more
helpful error message is produced in case of a format
version mismatch?
Groeten,
Andres
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mailto:andres@cs.uu.nl mailto:mail@andres-loeh.de
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* Re: Integrating Metapost
2003-10-30 23:40 ` Andres Loeh
@ 2003-10-31 10:55 ` Patrick Gundlach
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2003-10-31 10:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Andres Loeh <andres@cs.uu.nl> writes:
Hello Andres,
> This seems to be a very common problem. Isn't it possible
> to integrate a check into the metafun code so that a more
> helpful error message is produced in case of a format
> version mismatch?
That would be good. Just as an example, one can do this in LaTeX:
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1995/12/01]
(there are a few related commands)
so you can make sure to have LaTeX2e newer than the given date.
But I don't know how to get the metafun format number. One can't pass
mpost variables back to TeX?
Patrick
--
You are your own rainbow!
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