Re: puzzling metafun graphics

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:

> This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The  
> story (in shorthand):  was trying to integrate a positional metafun  
> graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a  
> minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough,  
> everything went fine. I rebuilt the entire file, by pasting one  
> paragraph of the original file at a time, and I got exactly the  
> output I wanted. [Drumroll] I deleted the original file and  
> everything associated with it [i.e. all those .tui and .tuo etc.],  
> saved the new file from my /tmp directory to my working directory,  
> and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are  
> identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot:
>
> < \openout5 = `test-mpgraph.mp'.
> ---
> > \openout5 = `05.11.08-mpgraph.mp'.
> 205,206c206,207
> <  [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.1) [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.2)
> < [MP to PDF] (./test-mpgraph.3)
> ---
> >  [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.1] [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.2]
> > [MP 05.11.08-mpgraph.3]
> 211c212
> < systems         : end file test at line 426
> ---
> > systems         : end file 05.11.08 at line 426
> 213c214
> < [flush and process test-mpgraph.mp afterwards] )
> ---
> > [flush and process 05.11.08-mpgraph.mp afterwards] )
>
> The "MP to PDF" part is missing from the file 05.11.08, which might  
> explain why I don't see anything in the resulting pdf. But why? Can  
> anybody enlighten me why the same file can behave differently? And  
> how I can coax ConTeXt into running this MP to PDF thingy? Thanks

So the only difference in the source files is the filename? (should not 
make much of a difference because mp conversion is rather stupid)

Hans  

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