bug in mptopdf

bug in mptopdf

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi Hans,

I am afraid there is a bug in the latest mptopdf. It presents
itself by spurious spaces in the output for long postscript
strings. Here is an example:

% uncomment next two lines for viewing in gv(1)
%defaultfont := "Times-Roman";
%prologues := 1;
beginfig(1);
   label ("This string wraps to a second line"&
          " in the metapost output",(origin));
endfig;
end.

The created pdf document has a space after the p in metapost.
The output contains:

(This\040string\040wraps\040to\040a\040second\040line\040in\040the\040metap\
ost\040output) cmr10 9.96265 fshow

Greetings, Taco

Re: bug in mptopdf

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> I am afraid there is a bug in the latest mptopdf. It presents
> itself by spurious spaces in the output for long postscript
> strings. Here is an example:
> 
> % uncomment next two lines for viewing in gv(1)
> %defaultfont := "Times-Roman";
> %prologues := 1;
> beginfig(1);
>   label ("This string wraps to a second line"&
>          " in the metapost output",(origin));
> endfig;
> end.
> 
> The created pdf document has a space after the p in metapost.
> The output contains:
> 
> (This\040string\040wraps\040to\040a\040second\040line\040in\040the\040metap\ 
> 
> ost\040output) cmr10 9.96265 fshow

This works ok here:

\starttext

\startMPpage
   label ("This string wraps to a second line"&
          " in the metapost output",(origin));
\stopMPpage

\stoptext

i wonder where your metap\<newline>ost comes from, is that something in your 
local mp? what happens if you set the line length in mp larger?

Hans

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