Re: metapost textext?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hans van der Meer wrote:

> Panic using metapost in context.
> This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion 
> {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for  
> textext calls!
>
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
>     draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
>     label (textext("label"), (10,25));
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic{one}
> \stoptext
>
> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
> What happened. This is disastrous.

this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall 
back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)

it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?

(this intermediate mp runnig tex is a kind of messy mp feature and 
errors are hard to trace)

Hans